You can install new, modern, and perfectly suited fonts in Windows 10 at any time. Es­pe­cial­ly for modern ap­pli­ca­tions - when your text is to be read on a smart­phone, for example - in­di­vid­ual fonts can make all the dif­fer­ence. Get creative here and give a document or the design of your website a unique look.

Adding fonts and then using them in Word, Pow­er­Point, or other programs is quite simple. We tell you where to find suitable fonts and how to add fonts in Windows 10.

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Here’s how to find fonts to add to Word

If you are looking for high-quality free fonts, you will find them at Google Fonts, among others. Here Google provides over 1,000 fonts for free. You have the pos­si­bil­i­ty to check which fonts can be combined well, for example, if you want to install different fonts for headline and body text. Google Fonts offers the right font for almost every ap­pli­ca­tion area, no matter if you are just de­vel­op­ing the ty­pog­ra­phy in re­spon­sive web design or want to enhance a Word document.

Tip

In modern web design, the ap­pro­pri­ate font is par­tic­u­lar­ly important. One of the most important features of a modern website is that it is re­spon­sive and au­to­mat­i­cal­ly adapts to the re­spec­tive display. Therefore, before choosing a font, find out whether it is suitable for re­spon­sive web design.

To get a trained eye for suitable fonts and font com­bi­na­tions, it is helpful to check how the ty­pog­ra­phy of suc­cess­ful websites is con­struct­ed. The browser plugin WhatThe­Font clearly displays all the font and font size info directly in the browser.

OTF or TTF – Which kind of font is better?

When it comes to digital fonts, the OTF and TTF formats have es­tab­lished them­selves above all. If you have found, down­loaded, and unpacked a font, it may well be that the font is present in the folder as both an OTF file and a TTF file. In this case, install the OTF font. This is the newer format (developed by Microsoft and Adobe). OTF files are more compact than TTF files and at the same time offer more pos­si­bil­i­ties.

Be careful not to install both versions of the same font. Otherwise, linking and display errors may occur.

Install fonts: Step by step ex­pla­na­tion

While in Windows XP and older versions you had to install fonts in a tiresome way via the Fonts folder, in Windows 10 you only need a few clicks to install fonts. Down­loaded fonts can be unzipped, installed, and applied in seconds. In three steps, you can give your texts and web designs a com­plete­ly new look.

Step 1: Unzip font in Windows 10

After you have chosen a font and down­loaded it, it will be com­pressed as a ZIP file in your download folder. To unpack the file, you need a packing program such as WinZip orWinRAR.

Once the packing program is installed, right-click on the packed font and then click on the “Unpack to ...” command. This creates a folder of the same name that contains the unpacked fonts. Open the folder with a double click.

Image: font zip file: unzip menu
Right-click on the com­pressed font folder and unzip the font using the packing program of your choice.
Tip

In our guide “Open/unzip ZIP file” you will find detailed in­struc­tions on how to work with zipped files.

Step 2: Open in­for­ma­tion window and start in­stal­la­tion

In the opened folder, select the font to be installed again with a double-click. A window will open, which gives an overview of the ap­pear­ance of the font in different point sizes and of the current version of the font.

In the upper left corner are two buttons that allow you to either print the overview or install the font. Click on “Install” to start the in­stal­la­tion process. After a few seconds, Windows 10 will have installed the font and au­to­mat­i­cal­ly placed it in the “C:/Windows/Fonts” folder.

Image: Installing the “OpenSans” font.
Start the in­stal­la­tion of the font by clicking on the button with the same name.

Step 3: Change font in the desired ap­pli­ca­tion (e.g. Word)

Now open the ap­pli­ca­tion (here: Microsoft Word) to which you want to add the new font. Select the text you want to customize and enter the name of the new font in the font field in the “Start” tab. If Windows 10 has added the font correctly, you can now select it to change the ap­pear­ance of the text to your liking.

Image: Word: Added font in use
Word: Added font in use
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