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 4-38).
Figure 4-38. 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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