• How to install a font under Windows ?
• How to install a font under Mac OS ?
• How to install a font under Linux ?
• How to use a new font with a software ?
• How to use for a web site ?
• Why the fonts don't show up in e-mails / instant messengers ?
• How many fonts can be installed ?
• Are all fonts free of charge ?

• Installing a PhotoShop Shapes.

Unzip the files you have downloaded.
Details: Click on the "Download" button, save the zip somewhere on your hard disk, go to the place where it is saved, double-click on the zip to open it, then either click on "Extraxt all files" or drag and drop the files elsewhere from the zip window (hold down the CTRL key to select several files at once)
You can also install an unzip tool.

• Under Windows Vista:
  Select the font files (.ttf, .otf or .fon) then Right-click > Install
• Under any version of Windows:
  Place the font files (.ttf, .otf or .fon) into the Fonts folder, usually C:\Windows\Fonts or C:\WINNT\Fonts
  (can be reached as well by the Start Menu > Control Panel > Fonts).

• Under Mac OS X:
  Put the files into /Library/Fonts (for all users),
  or into /Users/Your_username/Library/Fonts (for you only).
  If your OS includes the Font Book, you can as well double-click on a font file, then a preview pops with an "Install font" button.
• Under Mac OS 9 or less:
  First, you have to convert the font files (.ttf or .otf) you have downloaded.
  Then drag the fonts suitcases into the System folder. The system will propose you to add them to the Fonts folder.

Copy the font files (.ttf or .otf) to fonts:/// in the File manager.

It is sometimes necessary to relaunch the current application to be able to use the new font.
Then you may proceed as usual, the font will appear in your software's font combo-box (word processing, drawing etc.).

If you specify a particular font in your web pages which is not installed on the visitor's machine, it will be replaced by the default font in his browser, Usually Times New Roman.
Of course, you can specify several fonts in the CSS by priority order, but nothing is guaranteed.

• The 3 main solutions:
  - to realize a title with a particular font, the easiest method is to make an image. Use a drawing program and save the image as .gif (or .jpg if there are too many shades of colour, or .png).
  - for a long text and only under IE, you can embed the fonts so visitors will download them at the same time as the pages. Details
  - generate an image with PHP

Your correspondant can only view the fonts installed on his computer. Better avoid to send a email or an instant message (MSN Messenger, etc.) with a non-standard font ; or then make sure your correspondant has installed it too, otherwise he will see a default font.

Windows is supposed to be able to manage about 1000 fonts. But avoid to install too many fonts at one time because that slows down the system. A lot of programs have to load to memory all installed fonts to be able to run.
So it is better to put fonts you use regularly in the Fonts folder. Keep the rest in any other folder or storage device, so you can install/uninstall them as needed.

The fonts presented on this website are their authors' property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. Please look at the readme-files in the zips or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt. If no author/licence is indicated that's because we don't have information, that doesn't mean it's free.

Place the *.csh files into: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Custom Shapes where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop.

To load a file, go to the Styles palette, then click the small arrow in the top right corner and choose one of the layer style collections from the menu.