Quick Guides in Downloading and Installing Fonts in Windows 7

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org defines fonts as electronic data files that comprise sets of characters, glyphs, and symbols such as printer’s character or dingbat. In layman’s term, fonts are the style or how your text appears like.

There are actually three kinds of fonts. These are the bitmap fonts, outline fonts, and stroke-based fonts. Among the three font types, bitmap fonts are the most advantageous and popular. Its popularity can be attributed by its capacity to render the style quickly and simply. It also has the ability to provide the user with the “what you see what you get (WYSWYG)” mode. In other words, the way the font is seen on the computer monitor will be the same as it is printed or used in other compatible device. However, Microsoft Corp., a leading company in terms of information technology (IT) prefers to use outline fonts. They choose this type of font because it can be changed using mathematical points to each vector.

Fonts are really useful because it can add up beauty on the appearance of our computers. Aside from beautifying one’s computer, fonts are also useful for designers of graphics, t-shirts, and other printed materials. Having different styles of fonts means your computer and other devices can be lively.

In this tutorial, allow me to teach you where to find valuable resources of fonts for PC users running the Windows 7 operating system, the newest of the Windows operating system series of IT giant Microsoft Corp. I will also teach you how to install these fonts in your computer. Get ready and comprehend what I am about to discuss properly.
If you really wanted to know more about how Microsoft Corp. creates its fonts, you can visit the link http://www.microsoft.com/typography/AboutFontsOverview.mspx. Microsoft Corp. discusses how development of their fonts. There are also a bunch of tutorials that will give you an overview of the font types they are concentrating at. If you have any clarifications, you may refer to font-related Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) in the same site.

You can use Google to search for free fonts for Windows 7. Let us 10001 Free Fonts as an example.

Fonts from 1001 Free Fonts

Open your web browser and enter the web address http://www.1001freefonts.com/ and hit the Enter key.

There are actually lots of font types you can see in the website. You are also given the chance to search on the name of the font you wanted by entering the keyword at the top left part of the page. What’s good in this page is that it actually provides fonts that are compatible to almost all types of operating system including Windows 7.

The website also provides images on how the font looks like. It also provides a custom preview on the appearance of the texts you have entered.

Explore the website and look for the fonts that suit your interests. Once you find it. Click the Windows Download in the font.

To properly organize the fonts you have downloaded, you need to create a folder. You need to remember the folder where you store your newly downloaded fonts at.
Once you are through exploring the website for great number of fonts, locate the folder where the newly downloaded fonts are located.

Most of the times, fonts are enclosed in a zip format. You need to have a zip compressor like 7zip or WinZip, or WinRar. For me, 7zip is the best because it doesn’t have any ads on it and it is for free. You can download it at http://www.7zip.com/. If you have found troubles in downloading it, just visit the 7zip.

Assuming that you already have the 7zip application, you may now decompress each font. Once it is already decompressed you can now install it by clicking the install button in each font.

If you can’t see an Install button in opening the font, you may follow the quick steps below.
Option 1

• Go to Run.
• Enter the keyword fonts and hit the Enter key.
• The folder Fonts will be launched.
• Locate the folder of the fonts you have just downloaded from 1001 Fonts. You need to decompress the file first using 7zip or any other decompressing file out there.
• Once decompressed, copy the font file and paste it to the Fonts folder in the Windows directory. If you find troubles, you can access the Fonts folder at its default and primary location at C:\Windows\Fonts.
• Repeat the same process for all the fonts you have downloaded.

Option 2

• Launch My Computer
• Go to the local drive C:/, the default installation folder for the operating system used.
• Go to the Windows folder. If the files and folders in the Windows directory are not shown, you need to show system files first.
• Locate the Fonts folder in the Windows directory.
• You can now see the fonts installed in your PC.
• I assume that you are in the C:\Windows\Fonts\ directory.
• Locate the folder of the fonts you have just downloaded from 1001 fonts.
• Decompress the font using 7zip or any other applications. Copy the font file and then paste it at the C:\Windows\Fonts\ folder.

After installing the fonts, let us now check it using any applications that involve fonts. You may either use any of the Microsoft Office products like Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Microsoft Excel. By the way, you can also use Adobe Photoshop because it can also read fonts installed on the PC.

Let us take Microsoft Word as an example. Follow the steps below:

• Go RUN and key in winword.
• Hit the Enter key or click the OK button.
• Type whatever words you like.
• You should remember the names of the fonts you have installed.
• Highlight the texts you have just typed and change the font face by remembering
• the name of the font you have just downloaded then installed.
• See if the font is listed in Microsoft Word.

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