How to easily install multiple fonts?

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We already blogged about how to install a single font into your system. That’s cool. However, we’re sure that you’ll love not just one font from the sites we recommend, but many. You will also end up downloading all of them. At the end of the day, they’re free, so why not.

The problem you may face once you have all those .zip, .ttf or .otf files, though, is how are you going to install them easily? Also, what’s the difference between OTF and TFF? Fear not! We at presentation agency 356labs are going to save you some time because we doubt that you want to install all of your new fonts one by one…

Not surprisingly, installing multiple fonts on both Windows and Mac machines is quite an easy task:

Windows:

One-click way:

1. Open the folder where your newly downloaded fonts are (extract the zip. files)

2. If the extracted files are spread across many folders, just hit CTRL+F and type .ttf or .otf and select the fonts you want to install (CTRL+A marks all of them)

3. Use the right mouse click and select “Install”

Copy-paste way:

1. Open the folder where your newly downloaded fonts are (extract the zip. files)

2. If the extracted files are located across many folders hit CTRL+F and type .ttf or .otf and select the fonts you want to install (CTRL+A marks all of them)

3. Copy them (CTRL+C or right mouse click -> Copy)

4. Go and Paste them into the Fonts folder located in Control Panel

Note that:

• When you have already installed a font, but you’ve forgotten you did, Windows will show a pop-up message. Don’t panic! It just asks you whether to overwrite the old files or ignore the new ones. Whatever you choose, you can click on the “Do this for all current items” checkbox so that it won’t ask you for each such font separately.

• Make sure that all the Microsoft Office programs are closed when you install a new font. Otherwise, you need to restart them, so they can recognize that a new font has been installed.

• If a font is not recognized even after the installation, this could be due to the font file format. OTF and TTF are the most common formats. OTF is the newer and better choice, but if your machine is a bit older, it might need a TTF version of the font. Try to search it on the web!

If this doesn’t fix the problem, you can write us, and we’ll try to help you.

On a Mac:

1. Open the Font Book

2. Click the Add button located in the toolbar

3. Select the fonts you want to install and click Open (use the Search functionality at the upper right corner of the window to search for .ttf or .otf files only if the fonts are spread across different folders)