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Aug 3, 2024, 10:09:37 AM8/3/24

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An important development in Windows 10 is the Universal Windows Platform (UWP): a converged app platform allowing a developer to create a single app that can run on all Windows devices. Windows fonts are one aspect of this convergence: Windows 10 introduces a recommended UWP font set that is common across all editions that support UWP, including Desktop, Server, and Xbox.

A number of additional fonts are available for Desktop and Server, including all other fonts from previous releases. However, not all of these are pre-installed by default in all images. In order to make disk usage and font choices more relevant to users according to the languages that they use, a number of fonts have been moved into optional, on-demand packages. These packages are designed around the different scripts that fonts are primarily intended to support, and most are added automatically by Windows Update when the associated languages are enabled in language settings (for example, by enabling a keyboard). Any of these Feature On Demand (FOD) packages can also be added manually via Settings. To add font packages manually, select the Start button, and then select Settings > System > Optional features (if on a version older than Windows 10 22H2, navigate to Settings > Apps > Apps & features > Optional features instead).

One way you can change the style of a document is by adding a new text font. To add a font to Word, download and install the font in Windows, where it will become available to all Microsoft 365 applications.

All fonts are stored in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder. Optionally, you can add fonts by simply dragging font files from the extracted files folder into this folder. Windows will then automatically install them. To see what a font looks like, open the Fonts folder, right-click the font file, then select Preview.

I have downloaded some fonts and installed them by double-clicking to open them, then clicking "Install font". Word and other Windows programs can see them, but GIMP does not list them in the text tool. Why is this?

TLDR: C:\Windows\Fonts is not a real folder. It's simulates a folder, and using it as the GIMP location will not work. The quickest solution is simply to copy this folder over to another location and use that secondary location, i.e., C:\Windows\Real-Fonts. Doing this, and then the Preferences->Folders->Font folder location, and then restarting, solved the problem for me.

You need to add all font locations. For instance, if you downloaded a font, and it's in the download section, simply installing it through windows will not be sufficient. You also need to add the folder the .tff file is located in. Hence why some people are just moving fonts to gimp\2.0\fonts instead.

I'm using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) with Oh My Zsh to pimp my bash, but I can't make the Ubuntu terminal render the Powerline fonts properly. Any idea on how to set up WSL to work with these fonts?

Now press that windows icon from your keyboard and search for Font Settings.Under Add Fonts, you can drag and drop the ttf files. Windows will automatically install all these fonts. You can then go to your Terminal and set the required font.

We use GPO to deploy fonts to our computers (Computer Configuration > Preference > Windows Settings > Files), but for 15 computers, it might be easier to copy and paste. But I still suggest doing it with GPO, since if you need to deploy the fonts to another 15 computers you can just link this GPO to their OU.

I used this and it worked perfectly installing a dozen OTF fonts on Windows 7 machines.
I used it in conjunction with PDQDeploy to copy the fonts into the font folder on the local machine and then run FontReg. Easy as 3.14159.

This seems to work quite well. If we want to add a new font to all machines it can simply be dropped into that Fonts share and it will copy down to each machine upon reboot (I have a scheduled weekly reboot for all machines).

I've been looking forward to the new editor's appearance in the Windows desktop program. Now that it's here -- I'm not. Among major feature deficits is the removal of access to the full set of Windows fonts. The "What's New" post makes the point that "a standardized font selection means your notes will look the same everywhere." Yes, that's an advantage, in some cases. But I have thousands of notes written in the past, occasionally using something other than the default Tahoma 10, and I'm wondering what will happen to them. When I open a note in the new program, will the formerly default Tahoma 10 be converted to, say, "Sans Serif" at whatever point size the "Normal text" style is? Or will the fonts and sizes be left alone, to become badly intermingled with text in the new manner when I edit them? Am I going to have to go through some tedious font ritual every time I edit an old note?

All that is assuming, of course, that I ever update to the new version, which I see no reason to do. I can put in headers and extra highlight colors in the Web version if I want them, while saving the look and customizability of my existing notes. The new Evernote would be the only Windows program I have that can't access the Windows fonts. I rarely use Google Docs, but I do know that, though it doesn't have the full set, even as a Web app it has a far more robust set of fonts than the Evernote Web client. I'm looking forward to having more font styling in the Android app, but to pay for that by having this drastic cut in Windows is an unhappy choice. Perhaps those who've been testing or using the new Windows version can comment on the fonts experience and its advantages and disadvantages on the basis of experience, rather than just my annoyed speculation.

The reality is that most of the beautiful fonts available on Mac / iOS, Android, and Windows, are unique to each of those platforms. One of Evernote's strengths has always been their cross-platform support, and yet one of the weaknesses has been the fact that a note written with (e.g) a Windows font would render differently when opened on an iPad or an Android phone, simply because the original font must be substituted by another available font on the other platforms.

Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions to this issue. Powerpoint (at least back in the day) offered the ability to embed all the fonts used in the presentation right inside the file, so that a presentation would render properly on another PC that may not have the same fonts installed. The problem is that fonts are generally huge and therefore embedding fonts would massively balloon the size of the file, which was problematic to say the least.

Getting back system fonts ins critical. It's preposterous to have to get out of EN, launch the Windows keymap utility, look for the greek letter you need, select, copy and then go back to paste it in your note, to say de least.

Practically one can go to the respective folder / library, copy the font files (either True Type and Open Font) to the other OS, and import them to be used there. Technically the Windows Fonts work on the Mac, and vice versa. I would never advise to do so, see my initial remark. But there is no software installed that would control whether a font was issued for this or that OS, and there is no DRM on the system fonts of both OSes.

Another nice tool is an app WhatTheFont: It uses the i-device camera to take a picture of any text, analyses the font and tries to guess it. It will produce a list of similar fonts, that can be used to mimic the font. Often fonts are protected by copyright, some are pretty expensive, but usually there are other (free) fonts that are close.

OP echoed. One of the problems with cross platform functionality is that the user ends up with a minimal set of functionality bringing none of the strengths of an individual platform. For those of us who primarily operate in one platform, we expect (and can deal with) a different behaviour on a second platform - I don't expect my notes created for a big screen device to be the same on an Android phone. We will see how this develops...

I do understand that fonts go with OSes and that substitutes/imitations are necessary on other systems. And yet ... not only Google Docs but this very forum's software is able to provide a set of named fonts, whether from Windows or imitations of them. Hopefully Evernote's set will enlarge as time goes on. But this is definitely a significant loss in the Windows program.

I'd love to have an answer on this specific point, if anyone has any experience. In another post someone indicates that previously existing notes "look completely different" in the new program. Is that right? Will previous default or selected fonts be automatically transformed into the limited set available in the new program? Yikes.

It shows 'Mixed' for font and no size at all??
I can see how some peoples notes may look odd if they have specified older system fonts etc in the past and the new editor cant convert them to a decent equivalent.

Thanks, that's what I see in the Web client as well. There, font choices made in the previous Windows program are not necessarily altered, but just identified as "mixed." Perhaps that is what will happen in the new Windows program as well.