Fonts for Illustrator must be complete, meaning that they must include bold, italic, and underlined templates in addition to a full alphabet of upper- and lower-case letters. You can download fonts in “. OTF,” “. TFF,” “. PFP,” and “. TTF” formats. Warning: Check the license agreement for any fonts that you download, especially if you are doing professional work. Many free fonts are free for personal use but are not permitted for commercial use.
You may have to open additional folders in the main window to find the ZIP folder itself.
Click the font’s ZIP folder. Click the Extract tab at the top of the File Explorer window. Click Extract all on the right side of the toolbar at the top. Click Extract when prompted.
If there are separate font files for bold, italic, and so on, you’ll need to double-click and install each of them in order for the font to work in Illustrator.
Navigate to the font file in File Explorer. Right-click the font file and click Copy or Cut. Click This PC in the panel to the left. Click the “C:” drive or whichever drive Windows is installed on. Click the Windows folder. Click the Fonts folder. Right-click any blank space and click Paste.
To adjust the size of your text, you can either use the font size drop-down menu at the top of Illustrator, or you can click and drag one of the corners of the text box around your text. Hold Shift while clicking and dragging to keep the text proportional while resizing the text.
Use the drop-down menu next to “Character” to select an alternate format, such as Bold or Italic.
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Fonts for Illustrator must be complete, meaning that they must include bold, italic, and underlined templates in addition to a full alphabet of upper- and lower-case letters. Supported font types for Mac include “. DFONT,” “. OTF,” “. TTF,” “. TTC,” PostScript, and Multiple Master. Warning: Check the license agreement for any fonts that you download, especially if you are doing professional work. Many free fonts are free for personal use but are not permitted for commercial use.
If the font file isn’t in a folder, just go to the font file’s location. If the font file is in a compressed format, such as zip folder, simply double-click the zip file to extract it to the same location.
If there are multiple files (e. g. , “Italic”, “Bold”, etc. ), select each of them by holding Command and clicking each font file.
Navigate to the font file in Finder. Click the font file and click Edit in the menu bar at the top. Click Copy in the pop-up menu. Click Go in the menu bar at the top. Click Go to Folder. Type /System/Library and press Return. Double-click the Fonts folder. Click Edit in the menu bar at the top and click Paste item.
To adjust the size of your text, you can either use the font size drop-down menu at the top of Illustrator, or you can click and drag one of the corners of the text box around your text. Hold Shift while clicking and dragging to keep the text proportional while resizing the text.
Use the drop-down menu next to “Character” to select an alternate format, such as Bold or Italic.
