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How to add fonts to Adobe Illustrator





2 methods: In Windows On Mac

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In Windows
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Close Illustrator if it is open. You will not be able to find the newly installed fonts in Illustrator if you install them while you have Illustrator open.
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If necessary, download sources to install. If you have not downloaded any source you want to install, find and download them before continuing. [1]
The sources for the Illustrator must be complete, which means that they must include bold, italic, underlined templates as well as the complete alphabet in uppercase and lowercase.
You can download the fonts in OTF, TFF, PFP and TTF formats.
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Open Home Image titled Windowsstart.png. Click on the Windows logo in the lower left corner of the screen.
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Open File Explorer Image titled Windowsstartexplorer.png. Click on the folder icon in the lower left part of the Start window.
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Go to the ZIP folder of the source. Click on the folder where the ZIP folder of the font you downloaded (for example, Downloads) is located in the left column of the File Explorer window.
You will probably have to open more folders in the main window to find the ZIP folder itself.
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Click on the ZIP folder of the source. This will select the folder.
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Click on the Extract tab. This tab is at the top of the File Explorer window. This will bring up a toolbar below the Extract tab.
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Click on Extract everything. It is to the right of the toolbar.
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Click on Extract when it appears. The folder will start extracting into a normal folder.
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Wait until the source finishes being extracted. When finished, the source folder should be opened, which means that you will be able to interact with the source file.
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Double-click on the source file. This will open a window with the preview of the source.
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Click Install. It is located at the top of the preview window. This will install the selected font for any application that uses fonts on your computer, including Illustrator.
If there are separate sources for the version in italic, bold, etc., you need to double click on each one and install them to work in Illustrator.

Method
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On Mac
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Make sure all applications are closed. Any text or image editor has to be closed in order to add a font to your Mac. The common applications that you must close are:
Adobe Illustrator
Pages
Microsoft Office applications
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Download sources to install if necessary. If you have not downloaded any source you want to install, find one and download it before continuing. [2]
The sources for the Illustrator must be complete, which means that they must include bold, italic, underlined templates as well as the complete alphabet in uppercase and lowercase.
The types of fonts that Mac supports are DFONT, OTF, TTF, TTC, PostScript and Multiple Master.
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Open Finder It is a one-sided blue application found in the Mac Dock.
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Open the source you want to install. Click on the folder where the font is stored to the left of the Finder and then open the source file folder.
If the source file is not in a folder, simply go to the source file location.
5 Select the font file. Click on the font file you want to install.
If there are several files (for example, "Italic", "Bold", etc.), select each one by pressing ⌘ Command and clicking on each source file.
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Click on Edit This menu is located in the upper left part of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click on Copy. It is found in the Edit drop-down menu. This will copy the source file.
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Click Go. It's a menu in the Mac's menu bar. Clicking there will open a drop-down menu.
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Click Go to folder. This option is near the end of the list in the Go drop-down menu.
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Type / System / Library and press ⌅ Enter. Doing this will open the Mac's Library folder.
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Double click on Fonts. This folder contains all the sources of your programs on the Mac, including Illustrator.
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Click on Edit It's in the menu bar.
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Click on Paste item. Doing this will paste the font files that you copied into the Fonts folder.
If you copied several files, you must click on Paste items.
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Restart the Mac. Click on the Apple menu Image titled Macapple1.png, click Restart ... and click Restart when it reappears. When the Mac finishes restarting, you should be able to open Illustrator and use the new font.