Hello

I was curious...can you add additional fonts to PSP? I'd love to put in some fancy and fun fonts into this program. Any thoughts? Thanks for your time!

Abby

Yes, the easiest way is to install to your Windows fonts folder. That makes them available to all applications that use fonts.

Hi Diane

Okay....I'm going to sound really stupid. But then again...I am a technological idiot (no really...lol). How do I add fonts to Windows? I've never done this before.

I found this cool website called DaFont.com by visiting Squidoo and reading Steam Crow talk about making a successful shop on Cafe Press. It was one of his suggestions to get fonts from there. They have some really great looking fonts!

Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate your thoughts and time.

Abby

Plug this search into google
add fonts to windows

Go to my computer, WINDOWS, fonts. there they all are then add to them, how many you want to put into that folder.

Hi Espresocup,
I know how you feel. I was that way until I figured out how to do it.
First thing. Make a folder in your "My Documents" that says "Fonts" (or something similar.)This is where you will download the fonts that you want from the site.
2. They will be in Zipped format, so you will have to unzip them.
3. Make sure you unzip them BEFORE you go to add them to your windows font folder.
4. Go to "Control Panel" and click on it.
5. Find your "Fonts" folder in the windows panel. Open it.
6. Click up the top, File, on the drop down list click "Install new fonts"
7. Now, about half way down, you will see a window where you have to go into to find the font Folder you made in "My Documents" It has "Folders" on top of it.
Click the C folder
Next click on Documents
Next click on User
Next click on My Documents
It will bring up all your folders. Scroll down until you get to the new font folder.
Click on it to open the folder.
You will now see all the new fonts.
Click on the one you want to install and it will show you above the list of fonts
By clicking on the above list you will highlight them and then click on "Okay".
You have now installed the fonts you want.
Open up whatever program you are using and they will be there.


I know it seems like a lot of clicking, but you get faster at it once you've done it a few times.

Hope I've helped you out.

Jen

the process for adding fonts may be different for different browsers and/or computers. i can't say i know much about that, but here is the way i do it if other ways don't work for you.

(in firefox)

download the font

if the file is zipped, click "open" (from the completed downloads window)

click extract all files and extract them to the directory C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

and you're done


in internet explorer i use the same process except when you click to download the font you are given the option to open or save. i always choose just to open and extract the file from there.

if the font is not "zipped" just right click on it, "cut" and then go to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts and paste it with the rest of your fonts.

here are a few other good font sites for you to check out also

www.1001freefonts.com
www.urbanfonts.com
www.acidfonts.com
www.fontfreak.com

And keep in mind that your new font won't show up in your program's font list until you close the program and re-open it.

Good day -

-- A couple things not mentioned here ...

-- Windows has a recommendation that you keep the number of 'installed' fonts to as few as you can live with so as to not negatively affect performance of Windows. Having too many can really slow the computer down a lot.

-- This seems to vary by computer setup. I've had one computer with over 1300 installed fonts and had no problems - and then I've had one with only 200 and had some problems.

-- The best way to handle having quite a few fonts on your computer is to keep them in another 'font' folder separate from the 'installed' fonts. Use a 'font manager' program (Bitstream Font Navigator comes with CorelDRAW for instance). These will make a 'catalog' of the fonts on the computer (anywhere on the computer) and will permit you to view that font without installing it, and makes installing and un-installing easy.

-- I have over 11,000 fonts on my computer with just over 200 installed (right now) and I'll tell you - selecting the 'correct' font for a project is a real pain at times.

-- Be careful when downloading FREE fonts as there are often limits on what you can do with them. Very often using them for commercial purposes is completely prohibited.

-- Most of the fonts I've seen are poorly drawn/created. They seem to have been auto-generated from some scan and thus have many many excess nodes which can cause lots of printing problems. When making a PNG or JPG for use on CafePress - that part will not be a problem.

I second what Barry says about making a whole new folder for your fonts. Yes, it will slow things down and can be disaterous. Happened to me many years ago before it was recommended to make a folder for fonts.
I have thousands of fonts in my fonts folder but only the "normal" fonts in my windows.