How to Add Fonts to Illustrator

Close Illustrator if it's open. You won't be able to find your newly installed fonts in Illustrator if you install them while Illustrator is running.

Download fonts to install if necessary. If you haven't yet downloaded the fonts that you want to install, find and download them before continuing.

• Fonts for Illustrator must be complete, meaning that they must include bold, italic, and underlined templates in addition to a full alphabet of upper- and lower-case letters.
• You can download fonts in .OTF, .TFF, .PFP, and .TTF formats.

Open Start . Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

Open File Explorer . Click the folder icon in the lower-left side of the Start window.

Go to your font's ZIP folder. Click the folder in which the font's ZIP folder is located (e.g., Downloads) in the left-hand column of the File Explorer.

• You may have to open additional folders in the main window to find the ZIP folder itself.

Click the font's ZIP folder. This will select the folder.

Click the Extract tab. This tab is at the top of the File Manager window. Doing so will prompt a toolbar to appear below the Extract tab.

Click Extract all. It's on the right side of the toolbar.

Click Extract when prompted. The folder will begin extracting itself into a regular folder.

Wait for the font file to extract. Once it does, the font's extracted folder should open, meaning that you can now interact with the font file.

Double-click the font file. Doing so will open a window previewing the font.

Click Install. It's at the top of the preview window. This will install your selected font for any application that uses fonts on your computer, including Illustrator.

• If there are separate font files for bold, italic, and so on, you'll need to double-click and install each of them in order for the font to work in Illustrator.

Make sure that all of your applications are closed. Any text or image editor has to be closed in order for you to add a font to your Mac. Common applications to close include the following:

• Adobe Illustrator
• Pages
• Microsoft Office applications

Download fonts to install if necessary. If you haven't yet downloaded the fonts that you want to install, find and download them before continuing.

• Fonts for Illustrator must be complete, meaning that they must include bold, italic, and underlined templates in addition to a full alphabet of upper- and lower-case letters.
• Supported font types for Mac include .DFONT, .OTF, .TTF, .TTC, PostScript, and Multiple Master.

Open Finder. It's the blue, face-like app in your Mac's Dock.

Go to the font that you want to install. Click the folder in which the font file is located on the left side of the Finder, then open the font file's folder.

• If the font file isn't in a folder, just go to the font file's location.

Select the font file. Click the font file that you want to install.

• If there are multiple files (e.g., "Italic", "Bold", etc.), select each of them by holding ⌘ Command and clicking each font file.

Click Edit. This menu item is in the upper-left side of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear.

Click Copy. It's in the Edit drop-down menu. This will copy your font file.

Click Go. It's a menu item in your Mac's menu bar. Clicking it opens another drop-down menu.

Click Go to Folder. This option is near the bottom of the Go drop-down menu.

Type in /System/Library and press ⏎ Return. Doing so takes you to the Mac's Library folder.

Double-click Fonts. This folder contains fonts for all of your Mac programs, including Illustrator.

Click Edit. It's in the menu bar.

Click Paste Item. Doing so will place your font file(s) in the Fonts folder.

• If you copied multiple files earlier, you'll click Paste Items instead.

Restart your Mac. Click the Apple menu , click Restart..., and click Restart when prompted. Once your Mac finishes restarting, you should be able to open Illustrator and use your new font.