Installing Fonts on a Mac

Installing Fonts on a Mac
There are hundreds of free fonts available on the Internet.
Why not make your work stand out a bit with a new font?
I recommend 1001 Free Fonts: http://www.1001fonts.com/
Peruse the site and find a font you like.
Click DOWNLOAD, Click OK and save it to your Desktop
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Go to your Desktop. Find the zip file and double-click it.
The file will be a zipped (compressed) folder and the icon
will not look like a normal folder. The title should end in .zip.
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Double-click the icon. This should decompress the file.
You will see either the font file or a blue folder behind the
original zip icon. See below for examples
The original zip file can now be dragged to the trash and deleted.
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Next, the font will be installed. If the font is a file, just
double-click it. If there is a folder, open the folder and
look for a file ending in .OTF or .TTF
Double-click the font file to install. Sometimes there are multiple files
for one font (One file for regular text, another file for bold text, etc.)
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The font will pop up in a new window. Click Install Font.
An application called Font Book will open,
which shows fonts installed on your computer. You can quit this
application.
That’s it! Now, any fonts you install will appear in the font list (in
PowerPoint, Word, etc.) with all of the normal fonts.
HINT: If you have a Microsoft application open and you install a font,
you must close it and reopen it in order to use the font.
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Installing Fonts on a Mac

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