How to download fonts from google drive pc

With this guide, you will be able to download and install Google Fonts, making differently-styled letters key in your digital toolset to make text more readable. From the Star Wars intro scene to gothic prose, fonts relay the tone of your text and to which audience they are catering to.

Thanks to digital technology, there are more font types now than have ever existed in the entire history prior to the industrial revolution.

With a quick search, you can easily find at least half a million fonts to select from. Many of them have to be bought, but most of them are available for free.

Thankfully, Google Fonts falls into the latter category. A font family just means that a font type contains further substyles — varying degrees of letter thickness and italics. Some font families contain a single style, while others contain multiple styles, as you can see in the case of Roboto — 12 styles within a single font family!

It bears remembering that the Google Fonts collection was formerly called Google Web Fonts when launched in Extract the downloaded zip file. Open the drawer at the bottom of the screen. The file will be saved as a zip drive. Open your download destination and open the zip drive that you just downloaded.

It will extract a zip folder. Drag the zip folder not the zip drive over to Font Book. The Google Fonts website is a massive repository of almost universal fonts that can be used across mediums and systems.

It is not the only collection of fonts online, but it has to be one of the most comprehensive. Google Fonts are primarily for use in website design but you can also use them on your computer if you like. Before we get into installing Google Fonts onto different computers, first we need to find a font and download it.

There is a particular method you need to use on the Google Fonts website in order to download fonts locally. As the fonts are designed primarily for use online, local downloads are not the most intuitive. Choose to download the Family all of the styles within that font , or to select only one style italics, Bold, or regular within that family.

If you want to install multiple fonts, you can use Step 3 to add lots to your selection and download them all at once.

Fortunately, using the Google Fonts repository in Google Docs is simple. You just use the fonts as outlined above.

However, if you want a little more control over customizing the document as a whole, then you may prefer a desktop word processor such as Microsoft Word. Just navigate to Google Fonts to get started. Now you can browse through an expansive directory of fonts by clicking Directory at the top of the Google Fonts website. To find some of the fonts you entered in the Docs word processor, click the Show search and filters button at the top right of the page.

That will open the search sidebar as shown in the shot directly below. Enter the font name in the search box to find it, or select a specific category filter for a more general font search. The fonts will be saved within a compressed ZIP file. Extract the compressed ZIP folder by pressing the Extract all button. Doing this will open the window shown directly below. Open the extracted font folder, then right-click one of the Google font files and select the Install option on the context menu.

This will pop up a blue bar at the bottom of the page with the font name, showing that you've added it to your list which Google calls a "Collection". Step 5: Click the Download your Collection link in the top-right hand corner. Optional Step 7: Install the font by adding it to your system's Fonts folder, or by opening the font file itself and clicking the Install button depending on OS. Now you'll have more choices for word documents, slideshows, or design projects