I like fonts. I suppose that makes sense as I do design things that require the use of them. I’ve put together a list of my favorite ones – the fonts I use most often – and thought I’d share them. There are so many amazing fonts available, but most of what I use either came with my computer or were downloaded for free {I’m a little cheap like that}. By clicking on each font name below you will be directed to its source where you can either download or purchase. Enjoy!
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What good is a downloaded font if you don’t know how to install it? So here is a quick tutorial on how to add a font. Keep in mind I am working on a PC, so there may be variations on a mac {if this tutorial doesn’t work for your set-up, I’m sure there are others you could find by googling ‘installing a font’}.
Select the font you wish to download and click the download button.
Click OK to open with the default program.
It will automatically pop up. Now you need to export the file {extract}, so click on that button.
You can decide where you want the font to open up {I chose my desktop} then click ok.
When I go to my desktop, there it is.
Now open up your control panel, and then your font folder.
Now drag and drop the new font into the font folder.
Now you can use the font. I opened up a word document, selected the font tab and found my new font in the list.
The images are missing. Clicking on them drives up a 404 file not found error.
I’m so sorry! I will update the images soon.
Thank you so much, Emily. I’ll be playing with these.
FYI: The two peas old type font links to a blank page and I tried to search that site but found nothing about this font. Any substitutes that are similar styles you can recommend?
Did you happen to make the flowers that are pictured on your desktop?? If so, do you have a tutorial for those??
Thanks!!
I did not … those are from emmerson made – who no longer makes these flowers. You can make similar ones with this tutorial: https://jonesdesigncompany.com/tutorial/starched-flower-tutorial/
How wonderfully clever you are ! How I love your font choices !
I’m going to bookmark this page to use when one of my BRAINY creative friends is here to guide me through it all…….you just would NOT believe how ‘cyber dim’ I am……really ! x
Would love to see an updated Top Fonts list from you!!
Thank you for sharing these fonts/links!
Quick question . . . albermarle swash is no longer available on the link you provided. Do you have another site or font that looks similar?
Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing the info and links…love your choices!
Arrived via Today’s Creative Blog…cheers!
This is awesome!! I am so excited to have found this! But I have a question, will programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator automatically have these fonts uploaded to them if I download them to the computer using the method you gave above?
They should automatically show up. If not, you may need to restart your computer.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I’ve had it bookmarked for awhile and finally put your instructions to use today. So easy! Thanks again.
Thank yo so so much for sharing. I am very grateful!
Lisa
MErci pour le partage
THANK YOU for explaining with pictures! I just spent the last day searching through my computer’s help section and google trying to upload a new font with no success. I came to your blog and five minutes later my new font is working..THANK YOU!!!
This is AWESOME!
Thank You So much !
Thank you so much, this is great!
Thanks so much for sharing these! I can’t wait to put some of them to use! :) Also, thanks for the tips on installing them–so helpful of you!
you are so awesome. it’s great when others share what they know..just to help others out! i appreciate this post! best wishes in all your creative endeavors!
Ooh, I’m such a typography nut. I love letterpress, type, and typefaces. Typography has been one of my favorite Graphic Design courses in school.
I’ve been wondering what typeface you use in your ‘glory’ art print. Would you mind sharing? I think it’s beautiful :) Thanks for this awesome post and all your suggested fonts :)
Emily I love this and can’t thank you enough. One can never have too many fonts!!
Hello – so excited to try these fonts, but I’m having troubles. What do I do if I don’t get the “Click OK to open with the default program” pop-up box? Mine is just saying “Open” or “Save” and then whenever I try to drag it into my fonts in the Control Panel I am getting an error. Help!! By the way, thanks so much for your lovely blog – I absolutely love it!
Emily, I just wanted you to know I reference this post all the time. Thank you so much. I have used it to get directions on how to download, but also to have a glance at ideas of beautiful and current fonts.
I just keep learning more and more and MORE from you!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH – you are definitely the BEST!!!
What a doll you are to share…and all in one easy place with links. These are some of my favorites too! I’ve got a few other favorites, but warning…they aren’t cheap: Adios Script and Compendium. (Oh my goodness, how I LOVE Compendium with all of it’s calligraphic swashes!). The font addiction can get expensive! But good designers deserve to be compensated for their art.
Blessings to you, Emily!
Linsey
Thanx because I could NEVA get the hang of this before…now I’m addicted!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!! i had no clue how to do this!
Thanks! This is very helpful…I LOVE your blog and your decorating style:)
one of my favorite fonts that I use often is called Sandra Oh. thanks for sharing your favorite!
thank you so much for the info. I have been trying for awhile now to do this on my own, and haven’t been able to make it work. Your awesome, thanks for sharing. Love you blog.
Thanks so much – how nice of you to share. I’m also so happy to find your blog!
This was SO helpful! I stumbled across this page after spending hours trying to figure out how to get new fonts to work in Microsoft Word and having no luck… it was so easy to understand! Thank you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I can’t wait to use these great fonts!
So Great!!! I’m going to try this now. I’m slightly computer challenged- but what you posted seems straight forward. Thanks for sharing.
you are too kind. I love fonts and most of them were free. Even better! Thank you for always taking the time to explain things, share your ideas and most importantly share your faith in Jesus Christ. You do allow Him to shine through your transparency and honesty in your post!
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! Continue to love your site!!
Thank you so much for sharing! I just added tons of these to my favorites list–can’t wait to use them!! :)
thanks for this…i have been bored with my fonts and this is just what I needed….on another note…did you make the flowers in the picture on your desktop?They are darling! Tutorial in the future? :)
Hi! I am friends with Jen Jones (we were roommates in college:) and she showed my friends and I your blog. I LOVE it. We are making a small event/party hostess company and blog right now. And i love the fonts you shared. so Cute!
I’m a designer myself and am always looking out for new free fonts! Thanks so much! These are great!
What font do you use on your blog title? It looks a lot like the Nelly Flourish, but it seems like the “flourish” is on the lowercase letters on that one. Also… what about the font you used on the “love letters” in the previous post?
Love your blog!!
gosh, you little genius. you rule. thanks for sharing:)
this is so helpful! i wonder if those fonts will load to pse?
Thank! You! I have been trying to figure this out forever.
love fonts too! i work at an embroidery shop, so i’m always trying to find new fonts that will work good for embroidery. i have loved “circus”, but i feel like it is a little over-used these days. but, LOVE the PEA LOVEY DOVEY font. precious!
Emily! Thank you SOOOOO much!! What a huge help to me and my novice font-ing. :) You’re awesome!
thank you so much! i had most of these fonts before my hard drive crashed and when i lost them i just never tried to hunt down where i downloaded them from. thanks to you i have some of the good ones back!
Hi Emily-
xoxoxo Thanks for posting this list. I always get overwhelmed when I pick out fonts on font sites. Your list is just what I needed.
My best- Diane
Thank you so much! I love your blog and appreciate you sharing things like this.
Hi Emily,
I love your blog, follow it daily!! Thank you for the fonts!! Sooo Cute!!
Oh my goodness, this is a delightfully helpful post! Thank you! Also, I see you must love Emerson’s flowers like I do…check this out:
http://www.playingsublimely.com/2011/02/perfecting-emersons-flower-a-tutorial/
Hugs,
Amy :)
Emily-Thank you so much for sharing these. I always love all of the fonts you use. Thanks also for sharing the tutorial. But, thanks must of all for your beautiful, Wonderful, and MARVELOUS blog.
Thanks so much for sharing your personal favorites. I’m always on the lookout for new ones. I heart typography :)
Holy cow, you read my mind!! I was JUST about to ask you about your favorite fonts.. no, really.. haha thanks so much for this post!! :)
Thanks so much for sharing these fonts! I downloaded almost all of them! You’ve been inspiring me in the past few months and I’ve done a bunch of projects using your tutorials which have been super-helpful! Thanks again!
Hi Emily, Thank you so much for this! What might seem to others an obviously easy thing to do, wasn’t for me, so I’m SOO excited to be able to do this now!! I am the “publisher” of our Church Bulletin, and I’m thinking I may be able to use these new beautiful fonts now. Yeah!
Emily~I love fonts and LOVE the fonts you use, so this is a gold mine for me. Thank you so much for sharing them! xo
Thanks so much for the tutorial. I’m so excited to use these.
Thank you for sharing these fonts and the tutorial to download them. I can’t wait to play around with them.
Thanks so much! Love the fonts and now I know how to download! Question…the picture on your desktop…what is that? Are those flower pins? Where can I get one?
The flower pins on my desktop are the gorgeous work of EmersonMade. Love them. {www.emersonmade.com}
You are amazing! I just love your blog :-) Thanks for this!
Thank you SO much for this.
You made my day! Thanks for sharing!
Oooo these are beautiful!!! I love them all. Thank you so much for the tutorial…I am so excited to try it out!
Great post – I always love finding new fonts. My wedding invites were a combination of Bickham Script and Engravers. It was fun to look at your favorites!
Thanks for sharing. My sister and I often e-mail each other about fonts we have found or are inspired by … kinda dorky, but that’s what sisters are for. We like the website http://www.fontsquirrel.com/. It has fresh, hip fonts, and all are free. Plus there are categories on the right side of the page to help you find what you’re looking for (handrawn, script, sans serif, novelty, etc). You can even do a “test drive” on each font page… it’s like seeing your name in lights!
Just a hunch, but I bet you would like Mountains of Christmas: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/mountains-of-christmas
Thanks again!
There isn’t much better than pretty paper and pretty fonts! Thanks for sharing! I have a mac, but am going to do some googling. =)
Thanks so much for the fonts and tutorial, seriously made my night! I love your blog and your style
Thanks for the fonts and the tutorial…i just installed several.
These are so many of my faves too!
I just wish I had a clue how to change the font on my blog.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your good taste with us!
I’ve been a fan of Bickham Script for a while now and I love the others you shared as well. It’s always nice to find pretty fonts that are free! Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing those are great fonts. I do a lot of scrapbooking and am always looking for a fun font to use for my boys books.
Oh! Thank you so much!!! I love them all and can hardly wait to get using them!! There are so many great possibilities just waiting!!
thank you so much for this post! I’ve downloaded nearly all of them!
Thank you so very much! Love love love this!
What a fantastically generous post! love love love this!
thank you soooo much for sharing.
thank you, thank you, thank you for this great post. i’m a fontaholic and you fed into my addiction
Wow, what a great thing to share. There was a tv show on recently with a little nine or ten year old boy that dreamed of sharing his favorite font with his valentine(as part of his perfect date.) I don’t know what show it was-not one I usually watch, I just happened to that night. This post made me think of it. It was too funny. Love the step by step today-thank you!!
Ahhh! I am so thankful for this post! I am familiar with quite a few of these fonts, as I love to work with them, but there are a couple that I have been dieing to find!!!
I love that you did this. I was just going through a bunch of fonts this last week saying there are so many that I love and want to use! Great post idea!
I also love fonts! Have you seen the children’s book Alphabeasties? I think you’d love it! There’s even a special word for people who love fonts but I’ve forgotten it and as soon as my little wakes up from naptime I’ll tell you what it is. You know, since that is what we are. : )
thank you so much for these links!! so wonderful.
thank you! i have had such a hard time trying to find some of these specific fonts! soooooooooo excited!
i was just wishing for new fonts, but wishing for suggestions. thanks so much!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE fonts too! :) Thanks for posting!
I might have just spent like two hours downloading fonts. I easily have 1000 on my computer. It’s turning into a problem…thank you for inspiring me to download a few more and for sharing your favorites!
I LOVE FONTS…but I have never downloaded my own… Gracias!!!
Cool! The crazy thing is, I’ve already downloaded all of these at one time or another, thanks for the tutorial… next time a friend asks how i download font’s I’ll direct them here :D
Emily, you are such a generous person! Your blog is awesome. But what impresses me most is your generosity!
That Clemntine one has been my favorite lately too!
Others I have downloadd for free from dafont…..
L’Olivier, Hand Times, Aria Pencil Roman, and English Essay. I LOVE finding new fun fonts!
Love these- thanks for sharing! My 6 yr old was just showing me what she’s learned about microsoft word last night and chaning fonts, colors and sizes. She’ll love some of these newbies!!
xo~
T
Emily~ I’m a lil font-happy! Seriously, a good font makes my entire day! (Nerdy, yes. But I don’t even care.) Thank you for sharing these– it’s love at first type.
awesome! I seriously LOVE fonts! I have been debating whether to purchase that Nelly font ever since you posted it a few weeks ago. Love that one! Thanks so much for sharing your faves – always great to find new fonts :)
Thanks for sharing these! I don’t design anything on the computer usually, but they always inspire something that I make by hand. One of the funnest places that I have found fonts from is: http://www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/fonts.htm All of her fonts have an interesting background to them!
seriously…brilliant. thanks for these!
Thank you for sharing. I’ve been wanting some new fonts. Do you know how to remove fonts that you don’t use? I accidentally downloaded too many in my last attempt to update my fonts.
Did you know that with the clementine font, “To make this font display correctly — that is, with the beginnings and ends of each word closed — you must begin each word with a capital letter and end each word with the symbol ^. (There are two irregularities: W & V. If a word contains a W, you must end the preceding letter with a ^. If a word contains a V, you must end the preceding letter with a ^ and capitalize the letter following the V.)” I like this font but liked it much better after learning this little tip! Dafont is my go-to for free fonts. After I found it I spent about two days downloading. So fun!!
I knew there was a trick … but I didn’t know what it was! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for sharing those … a lot of those fonts were new to me and I love them!
thanks you for sharing! I love fonts too
Fonts are a BIG deal. HUGE.
What program do you use to put them on your pictures?
Sometimes I use them in Picassa, sometimes in Paint.net and now I am learning Adobe Illustrator & photoshop so I’m sure I’ll be doing it there as well.
Wow! Thanks for this. A great valentine’s gift!!!
I am obsessed with fonts too. Love all these you’ve shared. Thanks!
Thanks Emily, you’re the BEST!
Oh, how fun!! So many delicious examples…love the Bell & Little Days! Janell
Emily… how did you know? (ha!) it’s my birthday!! Thank you so much for your lovely gift today! *Lynne* : )
You are fantastic! Thanks, lady!
Funny story (well, it wasn’t funny at the time!) – a couple years ago, I letterpress printed some invitations for a couple using the 1942 Report font. I forgot that font has a little bit of shadow to it and thought my press was totally screwed up, did all this trouble-shooting, spent hours tinkering…and then I realized, oh ya – it’s supposed to look like that! So I kinda hate/love that font. It took two years off my life!
Great post! As a fellow typeface fanatic myself, I was really excited to see this post sitting in my inbox. Thanks for sharing!
Ooooh! I LOVE fonts too…thank you for the links!
Shannon {aka}|design
Great, always on the look out for great fonts. I downloaded some of the freebies and bookmarked some too. I love 1942 Report! Use it often.
yay! thanks for sharing! i looove fonts!
Thanks so much for posting this!! I have been desperate for beautiful script fonts that aren’t trashy and grungy!
we share so many of the same favs! thanks for sharing some new ones i haven’t tried before!
I’m in the same boat as Faith. I downloaded a couple of free fonts, but don’t know how to access them to be able to use them? Please help!!
Oh these are amazing!!! But, ok, can someone help a girl out…this is all new to me. How do you actually use these suckers?! (I already downloaded a free one…no idea what to do now).
Nelly Script flourish took my breath away. La la la luv it!
Thanks so much for these! I am a “font queen!” My major in college was in layout and design. I LOVE font choices! – Karen
thank you so much for sharing! now for some fun with them!!!!
thanks for these….so great!
Emily, this is the BESTESTTTTTT gift I have recieved!!! I LOOOVVVEE all the fonts you put up!!! Oh, MY! I am downloading all the ones I don’t have (and you made me look at fonts I DO have in a new light and appreciation! Thank you sooooooooooo much!
Love them all, thanks for sharing!
This is exactly why I love the world of blogging: you meet so many wonderful, like-minded folk! I always thought I was the only one who’d linger over font websites….Thanks for sharing these!
So fun to see the Nelly Script up there! My cousin Crystal designed that gorgeous font. She’s such a talented letterist. I also love the Little Days font, so sweet.
THANK YOU! Love all that you posted!
Thank you so much for sharing! I absolutely love what you do!
Love all of your picks!
What a great post and thank you sharing! Can’t wait to play around with all of these lovely fonts! xoxo
Love these! THANKS for Sharing!!!
Great post! I am always looking for great fonts. LOVE that first one!
Oh my! Love, Love, Love!!! Another excuse to waste my time!! Thanks for sharing Emily, this is awesome:)
Can you use them in Microsoft Word?
Each of these should work just fine in Word.
I know! I’m such a sucker for fonts…I could look at them ALL DAY LONG! when you go to these sites – you can get lost and in love with SO many many options. Thanks for sharing some of your favs!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Love these…I’ve was just looking this weekend for some new fonts. THANKS!
You are creative and dear for sharing.