How to Install TrueType Fonts on a Windows Computer

TrueType fonts are widely available and often free. Find some styles you like and download them to your PC.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer Fonts Software

1. Locate the fonts you want to install. TrueType fonts have an extension of .TTF.

2. Click the Start menu, and then choose Settings and then Control Panel.

3. Double-click the Fonts control panel.

4. Choose Install from the File menu.

5. Select the fonts you want to install, and then click OK.

Tips & Warnings

• TrueType fonts contain all the information they need to print correctly in just one file. (PostScript fonts need two files.)
• TrueType fonts weren't considered as high quality as PostScript fonts, but that's becoming less true.

[SuaveDave]

on 9/7/2008 I should be more precise. I have a set of "floppy" disks which I used to install these fonts under DOS. The disks contain compressed files with extension .TT_
What I need to do first is to decompress thesem files before I can install them. I don't know how they were compressed. These Fonts were published by Casady & Greene.

[SuaveDave]

on 9/7/2008 I have some old "floppy" dicks with compressed TruType fonts. How do I install these font in Vista?

By the way, I had no problems with these fonts with DOS