Downloading & Installing a Font on your Computer

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

  1. Go to Google Fonts.
  2. Search for a specific font or scroll through the list to browse the fonts. Or, you can narrow your results to specific typefaces by clicking on the "Filters" button under the search bar. Then, you can select serif, sans serif, display, handwriting (AKA script), and monospace typefaces.
  3. After you’ve located a font you like, click on the font name.
  4. In the upper right corner, click on the “Get Font” button. Then click on "Download all" and the font will download as a ZIP file.
  5. Follow the Windows or Mac directions below to install the font on your computer.

Installing a Font on Windows

  1. Download the font from Google Fonts, or another font website.
  2. Unzip the font by double-clicking on the .zip file in your Downloads folder.
  3. Open the font folder, which will show the font or fonts you downloaded.


  4. 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).

  5. Your font should now be installed! If you downloaded more than one font, repeat steps three and four for each folder.

Installing a Font on Mac

  1. Download the font from Google Fonts, or another font website.
  2. Unzip the font by double-clicking on the .zip file.
  3. Open the folder, which will show the font or fonts you downloaded as part of the zip file.
  4. For each font, click on its individual folder, and open one of the files, such as "Charmonman-Bold.ttf."
  5. Once you open it, Font Book should open.
  6. Click "Install" in the bottom right corner.
  7. Once your font is installed, you’ll see a screen showing "All Fonts"
  8. 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.
  9. If you’ve downloaded more than one font folder, repeat steps two through seven until you’ve installed all the font folders.

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