Discover how to install new fonts on your device and integrate them into your creative projects. This article provides step-by-step instructions for adding and utilizing new fonts in your Photoshop interface.
Key Insights
- Fonts are installed onto your computer via TTF (True Type Font) files, which contain all the necessary information for your computer to utilize the font. This process involves opening the font file and clicking 'install'.
- Some fonts are broken up into multiple TTF files, each representing a different style (such as bold, italic, light). To use these different styles, you must install each corresponding TTF.
- Once a font is installed, it can be selected and applied within the Photoshop interface. The font size, alignment, and other characteristics can be adjusted to match specific branding or creative requirements.
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In this video we're going to be installing new fonts onto our device. Currently, your computer has fonts already installed as native fonts; however, we can install additional fonts if we have the correct files. So let's open up our folder and we'll open up the fonts folder.
Here we can see that we have multiple fonts that we can install. Let's start by opening up the nevis.ttf. TTF means TrueType font. Essentially, it contains all the information your computer needs to be able to utilize this font.
All we need to do to integrate it on our computer is simply click Install. We've now installed the font onto our computer, and we can close the window. Sometimes you'll receive fonts from a marketer or brand guide to ensure that all of the information and fonts are consistent with branding across the board.
Some fonts are broken up into multiple TTF files. In this case, each time you want to use a different style such as bold, italic, or light, you have to install a different TTF. Therefore, let's go through the process of installing each of these, and I'll come back when I’ve finished.
I’ve now finished installing each of these different TTF files, and we now have Chivo and Nevis on our computer. We can now utilize them for our Photoshop interface. So let's begin.
Let's start with “Building Cities on the Shoreline.” For this, we're going to use the font Nevis. We'll select “Building Cities on the Shoreline, ” and for this we're going to use our Horizontal Type Tool.
We'll click, and let's hit CTRL+A to select all the text. Next, we'll go to the top in our Options bar and we'll choose the font. We'll highlight the font and begin typing Nevis.
We can select Nevis Bold, and our font is now changed and consistent with Phase 10 Construction’s branding. However, we do want to increase the size a little bit. So let's increase the size to about 170, and we can probably even go a little bit bigger.
Let's change it to 190. As always, Photoshop is a little bit of trial and error, so don't be discouraged if you're not able to guess the right size or if you have to adjust multiple times. Finally, let's rotate our text so it's consistent with this 15-degree angled rectangle.
We can do this by going to the corner of the text bounding box and seeing the two arrows, then simply clicking and dragging. I'll hold Shift until I see that it's at 15 degrees. I'll then change the size of the bounding box from the top, and we now have our text “Building Cities on the Shoreline.”
Let's use the Move Tool to move it up a little bit. We'll click and drag it. Rather than having the text on the left, let's align it to the center.
We'll go back to our Horizontal Type Tool and, clicking “Building Cities on the Shoreline, ” we'll hit CTRL+A and we're simply going to center it. Unfortunately, it still feels like it's missing something.
So let's go to our Options bar and open up the Character and Paragraph panels, and we can play with these. Let's change this from small caps to lowercase. Then let's change it to all caps—and I like the look of this.
However, we have run out of room. Let's simply expand the sides, and remember if we hold ALT, we'll expand in both directions. Let's expand this to the far-right corner on the bottom-right-hand side, and let's also drag the left to the bottom-left-hand corner.
We now know that it's centered. We’ll zoom in, drag it in just a little bit, and holding ALT, let's center it right there. As a final step, let's drop “on the shoreline” to one line. We'll hit ENTER right before “on” so that “on the shoreline” is all in one line, and let's erase the extra space by clicking and pressing Backspace.
Next, let's center this text from top to bottom within the bar. We'll use the Move Tool and, holding Shift, we'll simply move it up. This looks good.
It's centered, and this is consistent with the branding of Phase 10 Construction. Let's save our work using CTRL+S on the keyboard to save, and in the next video, we'll begin stylizing the text in the center. See you there!