How to easily install multiple fonts?
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. Why not download all of them if they’re so cool?
The problem you may face once you have all those .zip, .ttf or .otf files though, is how are you going to install them? Also, what’s the difference between OTF and TFF? Allow us to save you 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:
- Open the folder where your newly downloaded fonts are (extract the zip. files)
- If the extracted files are spread across many folders just do CTRL+F and type .ttf or .otf and select the fonts you want to install (CTRL+A marks all of them)
- Use the right mouse click and select “Install”
Copy-paste way:
- Open the folder where your newly downloaded fonts are (extract the zip. files)
- If the extracted files are located across many folders just do CTRL+F and type .ttf or .otf and select the fonts you want to install (CTRL+A marks all of them)
- Copy them (CTRL+C or right mouse click -> Copy)
- Go and Paste them in the Fonts folder located in Control Panel
Note that:
- When you have already installed a font, but you’ve forgotten, Windows will show a pop-up message. Don’t panic! It just asks you whether to overwrite the files or ignore the new ones. Whatever you choose, you can click on “Do this for all current items” checkbox so that it won’t ask you for each such font separately.
- Make sure that when you install a new font, all the Microsoft Office programs are closed. 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 Mac:
- Open the Font Book
- Select Add Fonts from the File Menu and locate the folder where the fonts are
- Select the fonts you want to install (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)
And that’s how you easily install multiple fonts by yourself. See how to install fonts on your iPad too!
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Even simpler in Windows is to select all the fonts, right-click and click Install. Already have the fonts? No problem, just skip them 🙂
One more way… 🙂
The same way as you would extract a lot of archive files – select all of them, right click one of them -> extract!
Thanks for adding this one, Cathrine! 🙂
Windows updated my computer and caused it to crash. It also deleted all my fonts except the limited handful that is already installed. I want to reinstall all my fonts but don’t want to spend hours doing this one at a time. The “Install” option doesn’t even appear for me. I can copy but I don’t have the option to paste once I am in the Fonts folder. I used to be able to select and drag the fonts to the folder but I can’t even do that anymore.
Wow! Can y ping me at boris@356labs.com and show me a screenshot of what you are seeing?
I have the same situation as Monica. I don’t have an option to install. Can you post if you were able to help her and what to do?
Can you copy-paste the .ttf or the .otf to your Control Panel -> Fonts folder?
There is a chance that you don’t also have permissions to execute this operation. If that computer is a machine owned by the company that you work for, that may be the case. Let me know and we will figure it out! 🙂
Are you viewing the ttf files within an unzipped zip file, in Windows Explorer? Extract that zip file, then try right-click-installing (or copying/pasting) the ttf files within that extracted folder.
Absolutely. Your method is also a working method. Once the zip file with the archive is unzipped, you can select all the ttf or otf files and right click them, Install.
It worked perfectly on my Mac. Thank you for posting!
Great to hear! 🙂
where is this fonts folder?? I don’t see one
You can easily find it in the Control Panel Menu.
1) Click on Start button
2) Open Control Panel
3) Change the View by option to Large/Small Icons
4) Now you should be able to see the Fonts folder
How do I know if I want .ttf or .otf in Windows 10? Guess I’m the dummy!
If I should answer directly – use OTF. The most significant differences in those two type formats are in the way they are created, in the technical part. In a history point of view, OTF is the new standard and was developed after TTF format. That’s why there are situations when an old computer has problems with OTF and works better with TTF. But the two formats should work perfectly well on Windows 10.
And again, if you ever have one font in both formats, go for the OTF one. It can have more typographic features, better language support, more glyphs (characters) and other advantages.
However, if you’re using PowerPoint embedding option, there are some specifics. Not all fonts are made to be embedded. Also, embedding a font is enlarging the overall file size and OTF fonts are less heavier than TTF.
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Is there any way to do this on iPad? It’s getting really, really tedious installing them one at a time.
Hey Tara! Yep, after your comment, we checked it out and created a new guide you can check over here: https://356labs.com/blog/how-to-install-multiple-fonts-on-ipad/