Name

Fonts Folder

Synopsis

Displays all the installed fonts.

To Open

Control Panel Fonts[10]

Command Prompt control fonts

Command Prompt explorer \windows\fonts

Description

The Fonts folder is merely a folder on your hard disk (specifically, \Windows\fonts). However, when viewed in Explorer, it’s configured to display a list of installed fonts instead of a list of the contents of the folder. (The two aren’t necessarily the same thing.) Select View Details for more the most useful listing, which, among other things, allows you to match up a font name with the file in which it’s stored (see Figure 4-37).

The Details view of the Fonts folder shows the relationships between your font names and font filenames

Figure 4-37. The Details view of the Fonts folder shows the relationships between your font names and font filenames

Right-click a font file and select Properties to see bunch of additional information pertaining to the font, such as hinting and font smoothing properties, copyright information, font vendor information, and whether such fonts can be embedded.

To view a preview of an installed font, just double-click its name; see Font Viewer, earlier in this chapter, for more information. To delete a font, delete it as you’d delete any file (press the Del key or drag-drop it into the Recycle Bin).

To install a font (as long as it’s one of the supported types), just drag-drop it into the Fonts folder. Supported typeface formats include TrueType (.ttf), Adobe Type 1 (.pfm and .pfb

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