Viewing Installed Fonts on a Windows 8 System

To see a list of the fonts installed on a Windows 8 system, you can take the following steps:

1. Move the mouse pointer to a corner of the screen to bring up the menu with the magnifying glass representing the Search function. When you select the search function, you will see field appear where you can type fonts to search on that term. Hit Enter once you have typed fonts to initiate the search.
2. You may see "No apps match your search" and 0 next to Apps on the right of the screen, but beneath Apps you should see Settings with a number to the right of it, which should be 6 or greater. Click on Settings.
3. Click on Fonts or View Installed Fonts.

If you wish to see what a particular font looks like, you can double-click on it or touch the icon for it if you have a touchscreen.

If you have a TrueType .ttf font file you have downloaded, you can right-click on it and choose Install to install it on your system or you can double-click it to open a font preview window and then select install. To install a font, you will need to provide a userid and password for an account with administrator privileges on the system.

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