Traditionally, Microsoft, together withThe Windows operating system provides users with a good set of practical readable fonts. However, for many users this set seems insufficient for various reasons. Someone wants to create a postcard or greeting card layout, and he needs exquisite letters. Someone works with mathematical formulas - here professional symbols will be required. Special signs exist even for recording chess etudes! Of course, the standard Windows fonts are not able to cover all these and other cases. Fortunately, you can add the basic set yourself. As will be seen later, this is not a difficult task at all.
Before I tell you how to install fonts in Windows 7, I would like to give some advice on their choice.
The user of the computer should remember thatthe main requirement for the design of printed text is readability. It is not so important how beautiful the individual letters will be, if the reading of the written text turns into a decoding of the rebus, it surely will prevent you from conveying the thought embedded in the text. Hence the first tip: before installing a new font in the system, look at the samples of written words. The easiest way to do this is by double-clicking on the file.
The following, which should be noted:Many fonts for Windows 7 are intended only for writing Latin letters, most Russian-speaking users can not do without Cyrillic. Sometimes an indication of the support of the Russian alphabet is contained directly in the title ("rus", "kyr" are the word-markers), but not always. To determine exactly the availability of the native language will help again preview by double click.
And the last:there are many so-called fonts. This is an archive with dozens or even hundreds of files. Installing them all without looking very unreasonable - any garbage in the system folders slows down the computer over time. For example, drawing sketches of the Fonts folder with a large number of installed fonts may take several minutes. To revise each file from the set before installation is also difficult. Still, the optimal solution is to download to the computer only what is really needed.
Font files have, as a rule, an extension.ttf, rarely .otf or .fnt. But they are often available in the archived form (.zip, .rar, .7z, etc.). Any of the methods described below assumes that you have already unpacked the archive and extracted the fonts from it. Windows 7 can unpack the .zip format. For other file types, a special archive program is required.
In addition, installing a new font requiresadministrative privileges. If you are not a computer administrator and do not know the administrative password, then to perform the installation you will have to turn to the one who has such authority.
This is probably the simplest way of howIn Windows 7, install the fonts. The operating system recognizes the appropriate files and adds a special item to their context menu. All you need is to right-click the selected file and select "Install" in the menu that appears. It is done.
If you want to view the font beforeinstallation, you should double-click on it. In the opened window, you will see the outline of all letters. There at the top of the window there will be a "Install" button. I liked the writing - press the button.
The described actions are convenient in the case whenyou need to install one or more fonts. If you plan to install a dozen or more files, then adding each of them one by one is a tedious task. In this case, the following method is suitable.
This option should be recognized as the mostuniversal. The WindowsFonts folder exists on Microsoft operating systems from time immemorial, so it's easy to use it in XP or Windows 8 in the same way as in Windows 7.
You can install fonts by simply transferring the appropriate files to the Fonts folder (or copy them, and then paste them). You can even copy files, but simply create shortcuts to them.
It should be remembered that the folder Fonts hasattributes "hidden" and "system". To get into it, you will either need to make system folders visible through the settings in the Control Panel, or use a file manager that displays all objects on the computer regardless of their attributes, unlike Explorer.
Recommendations about how, in Windows 7install fonts, will be incomplete unless you mention a special tool for working with them in the "Control Panel" of Windows. To use it, go to the "Start" menu, there we press the "Control Panel" button. Then choose the item "Fonts", and if the panel has a view "By Category", then first click "Appearance and Personalization", and only then - "Fonts".
The window that opens will be the same Fonts folder,about which we wrote above. Therefore, to perform the installation, you should proceed similarly: drag and drop files, copy and then paste them or create shortcuts.
