I am addicted to fonts. I am always downloading them. I have hundreds and hundreds! It's bad. Sometimes I spend so long deciding on a font for someone, that it takes me longer to pick that than it does to come up with an overall design concept! Today I thought I would share a few …
I am addicted to fonts. I am always downloading them. I have hundreds and hundreds! It’s bad. Sometimes I spend so long deciding on a font for someone, that it takes me longer to pick that than it does to come up with an overall design concept!
Today I thought I would share a few of my favourites with you. They are all free fonts. My favourite site is dafont. Although, I google search and find lots of others too.
To add a new font to your computer all you have to do is:
♥ Download the font
♥ Open the downloaded font file and I drag the .tff or .otf file to my desktop
♥ Then I go to SEARCH on my computer (Windows has this option down the bottom when you press the Windows Start Logo) and I type in FONTS.
♥ My font folder will open and then I drag the font from the desktop in to here.
Presto!
Happy font hunting x
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Comments
Sarah B
Hi Katrina, thanks for this hint as I’ve often wondered how to do it. There are some great fonts above – I like the old typewriter one.
I hope you are feeling much better now and getting back to healthy 🙂
Sarah
Jenny
Hi Katrina, what a fabulous tip! Thankyou, I am merrily downloading. 😉
Sarah
I’m a huge font fan as well, I think I have about 1500 on the cimputer & stacks more that are not actually installed! Funnily enough I have about half of the ones you’ve posted & dafont is my favourite too 🙂
Samantha
Thanks Katrina, going to give that one a try, enjoy your weekend.x
Deb
Thanks Katrina, I often look at the fonts but never know how to get them. Ta muchly.
Amanda
I love finding new fonts too, thanks for the refresher on downolading them, I had baby brain the other day and couldn’t for the life of me work out how to download a font I wanted 🙂
Rosie
Katrina,
You have given me more excuses to play and avoid doing paperwork today…You’re the bestest….:)
Kimmy
I am totally hopeless at anything on the computer!! I have visited the website and downloaded the fonts onto my desktop, opened them and clicked ‘install’……now what?? LOL…..where do I got to use them etc….I clearly have NO idea!! hahaha….hope you are well and glad the card reading went well!!! x
Katrina
Kimmy – don’t install. Just drag the downloaded file to your desktop. Search your computer for the FONTS folder. Double click the downloaded font and there will be a .ttf of .otf file in there. Drag that one into the FONTS folder. Hope it works! 🙂
Dakota
Im 14 and i always use dafont (i screenshot the words) ive downloaded over 200 today, because i know how to download them now! Thanks
Katrina
Oh yay, glad you did this Dakota! Good work 🙂
Christina @ Hair Romance
Great selection, I love those handwritten fonts!
Elise
Katrina, you have created a monster !!!! I have been busily gobbling up fonts all morning. Thanks for the awesome tips xx
charmaine
You just reminded me, i used to scrapbook and had lots and LOTS of fonts:) I used The Font Thing, i think it helped organise them?? I cant remember now:)I do love 815 and sunshine in my soul. I love handwriting type fonts:) Thanks for sharing. What is the Commentluv checkbox…does that mean you can go read my blog:)? Im kinda techno challenged, i do need to finish of a new header for my blog, id make you cringe if you checked it out…bit shy here
Katrina
Hi Charmaine, it means that you put the link to your latest post on my blog so myself and others can go over and read 🙂
Leanne
thanks Katrina, I love fonts and recently discovered dafont and wondered how I could use it better. Thanks also for your tip on clearing apps off the ‘shelf’ on your iphone, I can’t believe how many I had to get rid of! Keep those tips on FB coming!!
I love your work!
leicia
am i stupid or what? first step is …. Download the font.
how do i do that?
julie @ tractorgirl
teehee! I must say I love a good font too….
BUT that’s because they are important!!!! They are yet another visual tool to add to your repertoire, so you can project EXACTLY the image you want.
Lou
K,
You never stop sharing your tips and insight. Love a great font.
Have a fab weekend.
L 🙂
Amanda Brownhill
I am with you, I love fonts also. I have over 8000! I do however, do a bit of graphic design from home also so always on the look out for new fonts.. free and to purchase!
Deanna
Thank you!…. I read this post aaaaaages ago and have just put it to use… why did I wait so long?! I’m a font addict now 😉