The Windows Team also added 50 new fonts: The Fonts window Details Pane provides quick information about your fonts such as status, style, use, category, designer and edibility. Its very easy to re-enable when you want to. Having a lot of fonts can sometimes affect the performance of your PC, so this is a great improvement.įont Control Panel displaying previews of active and hidden fontsįor added convenience, you can hide fonts that are not designed for your input language settings, so if you don’t use or need Chinese characters in Microsoft Word you can do so. So you can have a collection of your favorite fonts stored on a thumb-drive or external hard disk, and use them when you need to without having to install them to your local disk. You can now choose to install a shortcut to a font file instead of the file itself. If you often work with typography, you might end up installing numerous fonts that rarely ever get used. Going back to installing fonts, a Font Settings window features a new way to conserve space on your computer. Apart from these simple improvements, some which already exist in Windows Vista, the Font Control Panel item offers some lovely aesthetic improvements, such as real time previews of your fonts with the ability to quickly delete, show or even hide fonts installed on your computer. Install Font Dialog in Windows Vista, year 2006įonts can be installed multiple ways in Windows 7: using a simple drag and drop into the Fonts directory, or double clicking on the Font wherever it is located and clicking Install in the preview window. The Install Font Dialogue Box, circa 1992
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With Windows 7 an old relic has also been removed, the Install Font Dialog Box: One of the major improvements in Windows 7 is how you manage fonts in the system.