When installing the operating system, a number of fonts are installed on the computer, which are used by all system and application programs. However, their choice is clearly insufficient, especially if you have to deal with the design of text or graphic documents. Finding additional fonts will not be very difficult, there is a huge selection of them on the Internet, all that remains is to decide where the downloaded file should be placed.
Each application installed on a computer gets into the local operating system like in an unfamiliar city - it is not known where exactly the resources necessary for its operation are stored. To solve this problem, each OS has a dedicated "help desk". In Windows, this is the system registry - even during installation, the operating system records what is saved and where. Then these records are supplemented by each new installed application, adding "brought with them" resources. This reference also contains the storage address for system fonts. You can also find out the exact address, for example, in the Fonts variable in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Folders branch. But usually you can do without the registry - on Windows, fonts are installed in a folder called Fonts in the system directory, which is most often called Windows. If the operating system is installed on the C drive, the full path to the folder will be C: / Windows / Fonts. On computers running any version of MAC OS, a folder with the same name Fonts, but placed in a folder named Library from the root directory, is intended for this purpose. The full path in this case can be written like this: / Library / Fonts. And on Linux systems, the font stock is also called fonts, but it is hidden in the directory hierarchy one level deeper - it is placed in the share directory inside the usr folder. The full path from the root directory in this family of operating systems is /usr/share/fonts. However, with modern GUI operating systems, you do not need to know where to put them to install new fonts. For example, in Windows 7 or Vista, just right-click a new file and select the "Install" line in the pop-up context menu, and the operating system will do the rest, including copying the file to the font folder and entering information about the new font into the system registry. … After that, the font will become available in installed system and application applications.
