Use windows fonts in gimp

Step 4: Then we have selected a font named Cairo and we can see multiple options or styles are available. You can also see the type of glyphs the font has if you are looking for characters that are not standard. In About section, you can get bit of a history of the font and authors or designer information.

Also, there is a licensing option if you are looking fonts for commercial purpose and the last option is pairings which is suggested by google if you want another font in combination with this font.

Step 5: Now we have selected the regular style. Here we have option the review the fonts we have selected and an option to embed the font if you are using on a website or for our purposes if we want to use with GIMP then we select download all. Also, there is an option to download family if you want to download all the font styles in this particular font. Step 6: A zip file will be downloaded on your computer which can be extracted by right-clicking it and all the fonts will be inside the extracted folder.

This procedure will work on windows. Step 8: Open the folder tab and go in the fonts section and select the path as shown then click on the button which indicates to show file location in the file manager.

Now we will copy the downloaded fonts in this location. Click refresh button to load the fonts in the fonts panel. Step Next, we will create a new document to test our fonts from the file menu. Step Using the text tool just drag a rectangle and type a sample text and make sure that the font is Cairo which we have just installed. Step Another method of installing fonts which is not specifically to GIMP but will be available to entire windows is that you can double click a font and a preview window will open up.

There is an option to install by clicking the install button and it will be installed on windows. This method only works on Windows and not on Mac or Linux. Which will take you to the system folder and there you can drag the downloaded fonts.

Step 3 : Scroll down and click on Fonts. Then, on the right side will see the various folder paths. Step 4 : In case the file location where your fonts are installed is missing in the above step, you need to add it.

For that, click the add a folder icon. Then, click on the path selection icon. Navigate to the font folder path. Then, click on Ok. Copy the extracted font file TTF to this folder. Then, rescan fonts as shown above or restart GIMP. Similar to all tools, even GIMP is prone to bugs.

To fix it, check if an update is available for GIMP. If it is, install it. If nothing works, you should try reinstalling GIMP. Restart your PC. Then, install it again. Fortunately, you can preview fonts quickly in GIMP without repeating all the steps. For that, select the text in GIMP. Then, click on the Fonts tab present on the right side.

All the fonts are licensed for personal and commercial use, which is essential for serious work. We can be a very picky bunch sometimes, but I decided it was more important to help as many people as possible rather than be totally precise. For example, Helvetica is a typeface, and Helvetica Thin 40 point is a font.

Helvetica Bold 24 point is technically a different font, even though both fonts are part of the Helvetica typeface. Get back on track and make something beautiful now that you know how to add new fonts in GIMP! Your email address will not be published. We are not associated with them. Skip to content. The Windows font viewer looks barebones, but it works.

Even though it shows less info, the macOS font preview still manages to look much nicer. I've tried many image editing programs. GIMP is a free and powerful software, but not exactly user-friendly until you get comfortable with it, and I wanted to make the learning process easier for you here.