Here are instructions for downloading and installing a font on your computer. How you install a font is different depending on your platform (Windows vs Mac) so we've included instructions for both! Once you've downloaded your font, scroll down to the installation instructions that apply to your computer.
Downloading a Font
- Go to Google Fonts.
- Scroll through the list to browse the fonts. Or, you can narrow your results to specific typefaces by clicking on the 'Categories' menu under the search bar. Then, you can select or deselect serif, sans serif, display, handwriting (AKA script), and monospace typefaces.
- After you’ve located a font you like, click on the font name.
- In the upper right corner, click on the “Download family” link. The font will download as a ZIP file.
- Follow the Windows or Mac directions below to install the font on your computer.
Find the font file that you downloaded, keeping in mind that it may be contained within a.zip file. It's probably located in your downloads folder. Double-click the font file to open it in the Font Previewer. If you're satisfied that this is the font you want, click Install at the top left. Close the Font Previewer, and open your Office program. The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.
Installing a Font on Windows
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Install Open Sans Font Mac
- Download the font from Google Fonts, or another font website.
- Unzip the font by double-clicking on the .zip file in your Downloads folder.
- Open the font folder, which will show the font or fonts you downloaded.
- Open the folder, then right-click on each font file and select Install. You must repeat this for all the individual font files (such as Butler_Bold and Butler_ExtraBold).
- Your font should now be installed! If you downloaded more than one font, repeat steps three and four for each folder.
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Installing a Font on Mac
- Download the font from Google Fonts, or another font website.
- Unzip the font by double-clicking on the .zip file.
- Open the folder, which will show the font or fonts you downloaded as part of the zip file.
- For each font, click on its individual folder, and open one of the files, such as “Charmonman-Bold.ttf.”
- Once you open it, Font Book should open, and you’ll see something like this:
- Click Install Font in the bottom right corner.
- Once your font is installed, you’ll see a screen like this:
- Repeat steps three through seven until you’ve installed all the individual font files (such as Charmonman-Bold.ttf and Charmonman-Regular.ttf) onto your device.
- If you’ve downloaded more than one font folder, repeat steps two through seven until you’ve installed all the font folders.