Windows has a large number of fonts to work with right out of out the gate, but if there just isn’t one that fits, you may want to get some new ones. If you’re like me, you may have just stumbled onto a fonts website, or a unique font someone else was using and wanted to try it for yourself.
In this How To I’ll explain how to install (and uninstall) new fonts on Windows 10.
NOTICE: This How To only covers Windows 10 currently, but will be expanded and linked to related articles in the future.
Get the Font
There are two ways to get a font file, either from Microsoft or another website. I’ll cover both methods below.
From the Microsoft Store
You can access the Microsoft Store from the start menu on your PC, but there’s another way if you’d like to go straight to a font search.
Go to settings (Windows Start Menu)
Personalization (First row, fifth option; top right corner)
Go to Fonts (Fifth option on the left side panel)
Select ‘Get more fonts in Microsoft Store’
The installation from the Microsoft Store handles itself for the most part.
Once you find a font you like, select ‘Get.’ If you aren’t signed in, you’ll be prompted to do so. Once you sign in or hit ‘No, thanks’ the installation will start.
All done.
From a Different Website
There are many alternatives to the Microsoft Store that offer free fonts for those just trying them out, as well as paid fonts. Sites like 1001 Free Fonts, Font Zone, and Windows Fonts are good places to start your search.
Unpacking the File
Fonts use the file extension ‘TTF’ but may come in a zip file. If that’s the case, you’ll want to unpack them first.
Installing Your New Font
There are several methods for installing fonts on Windows 10 and they range from simple to incredibly easy.
Method 1
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to your font file (the location it was downloaded to)
Go to settings (Windows Start Menu)
Personalization (First row, fifth option; top right corner)
Go to Fonts (Fifth option on the left side panel)
Drag the font file from Windows Explorer onto the ‘Add fonts’ section’s Drag and drop area
Method 2
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to your font file
Open a second Windows Explorer instance (by right clicking on W.E. and selecting ‘File Explorer’
Navigate to OS (C:) > Windows > Fonts (you can keep track of where you are in the address bar at the top of the window)
Drag the font file from your previous Explorer window into the Fonts folder on your C: drive
Method 3
Navigate to the font you downloaded and double-click on it
Hit install on the top bar after the preview window comes up
Whichever method you use, the results will be the same.
Enjoy your new font!
Uninstall a Font
The last thing I want to go over is uninstalling fonts from Windows 10. Maybe you picked the wrong one or want to get rid of old fonts you aren’t using anymore. In either case, you can uninstall fonts by following these steps.
Navigate to OS (C:) > Windows > Fonts (where the installed fonts are all kept)
Choose the font you want to uninstall and delete it
Conclusion
While adding and removing fonts from Windows 10 is easy in hindsight, it can be a little confusing at first. I hope this How To cleared up all the steps involved and you get your hands on the fonts that are right for you.
I think we’ve finally figured out how best to use the Bourgogne, regardless of what the second battleship is. Not is it only more fun to flank at speed on maps like hotspot but it’s also very effective if you can get there before an anchor cruiser can finish setting up on that flank. That’s what the engine boost is for, I guess.
Anyway, a good night overall but starting later tonight and most of tomorrow I’ve got to find a way to finish up the Chronicles of Proxima. I’ve got most of the ideas figured out but writing them in the correct order and in the right way is tricky. This isn’t going to be my prettiest first draft no matter how close to the wire I get. Still, I’ve got to try. As for that blog article, I don’t have a lot of hope left for that one. I was leaning toward a quick divi tutorial but I couldn’t settle on an area to focus on. Either way, as long as I get my fiction writing goals for the month done, I won’t be too broken up about it.
Those might be the only ones I should be trying to set anyway. I’m not sure about that yet, but it’s something to think about.
I ran into a little problem earlier and it took me almost an hour to track down the issue. The title images I was trying to test on the site had glowing borders around them for some reason. It completely ruined the look, so I had to fix them.
Getting rid of that glow effect took a lot longer than it should have, and I got caught up making other changes while doing it. Divi let’s you edit on the front end of the site now, but it also lets you apply customized themes to individual pages. This is a double edged sword that always cuts backwards first if you’re used to working on the back end. Not everything works the same way and not all the same options are present, so things can get confusing really quickly.
I couldn’t find the image controls until I went deep into the back end because the Records page has its own ‘content’ settings as well as a specific page them. I thought the image settings were in the former, but later I found them on the page theme itself. The images are part of the post content itself so this left me confused for a bit.
Don’t get me wrong, Divi’s powerful and looks great once you get going, but certain aspects of it are convoluted. At least the fact that there were certain options I couldn’t even find helped me narrow down the problem. Everything makes sense now but at the time it was a bit frustrating.
This isn’t a Divi review, so let’s move on.
Lydia’s Golden Treasury
I’m making progress, but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion the last few days of December are going to be really rough for me. I’m not even sure I’ll be able to get that article done, but I’ll take some time to at least iron out an outline tomorrow. Maybe tonight actually.
I’d say I’m around a quarter done with the Chronicles of Proxima, which isn’t great, but it’s not terrible, either. It’s pretty close to the usual really. I tend to hammer out a third of each chapter within the last few days of the month, so it’s not time to panic, yet.
What I really need to do is start scene hopping and filling out a skeleton. Proxima’s giving me trouble because the repercussions of Chapter 3 are being partly covered at the beginning of Chapter 4. The Chronicles of Proxima haven’t even been mentioned yet; that’s just how much space Chapter 3’s aftermath is eating up. It’s funny but it’s making it hard to hone in on Chapter 4’s point and purpose … not to mention the titular item(s).
I’ll figure it out, just thought I’d leave an update up.
One More Thing
I remade an Artorius logo I had sitting around some years ago last night and put that up to see how it looks. Looks great by the way. Artorius isn’t anywhere near finished. Nothing’s published on the site, so the logo isn’t a link, it’s just an image. Lydia’s Golden Treasury and the Fleeing Victory logos should take you straight to the pages the old links did, though.
Going forward I’m going to make as many logos as I can for the stories listed in the Records, but only some of them will have links. I’ll try to think of a way to make it obvious at a glance which ones are clickable and which ones aren’t. Maybe a filter would do the trick. We’ll see.
The font used is Cooper Black. Size 120 pt, and it’s rendered sharply.
It might not look like it to the untrained eye but I was in a big hurry. I spent two and a half hours I could have been writing working on this in Photoshop so I was cutting corners with that in the back of my mind. I really should have set aside a full day to work on one of these.
That said, I think it’s great for a first attempt. I’m going to look for time and ways to improve it and make a few alternate versions, but for now I just needed some visuals to keep me motivated while I work, as well as a graphic I could replace the text link to the story with. I’m planning to do this for all my stories, including experiments like Fleeing Victory.
It wasn’t all good since we don’t quite have a solid approach to this ever-shifting META, but we at least have certain maps and ship combos figured out.
I really wasn’t expecting to be playing the GK and the Kremlin on a regular basis, but here we are.
I can’t seem to kick my old habit of immediately going back to normal view after taking a shot. I’m too used to being under torpedo attack, I guess. I can avoid it consciously but free look just doesn’t cross my mind naturally.
There was also progress on Proxima today. I’ll be focusing almost entirely on that tomorrow while looking into possible topics for that second article. There’s not a lot of time left for the water paths on the map so I’ll write that one off in a few days if I can’t think of anything else.
