You can install web fonts in a variety of ways. Here are the most common methods:
- Use Adobe Fonts: With Adobe’s Creative Cloud platform, you can conduct web fonts directly through their service. Once you’re a subscriber, count your desired fonts to a web kit. Then, it would help if you mandated your CSS to pull the web fonts from Adobe. It’s not difficult, but it does require some knowledge of CSS (Adobe offers tutorials on how to use their fonts for WordPress here)
- Adobe Fonts: Adobe Fonts isn’t the only service that hosts fonts in this manner. Google Fonts is another perfect.
- Integrate fonts: The most “progressive” of the options, web font files may also be uploaded to your server and styled directly within your website’s stylesheet.
- Use a Plugin: WordPress users may opt to install a plugin, like Use Any Font, to upload their favourite fonts and apply them across their site. For most themes, applying fonts with a plugin requires CSS knowledge so that you can target and style the fonts.
A desktop font functions likewise to how it sounds—from your desktop. With a desktop font, you download and install the font file on your computer.
Most desktop font files will download as a .zip file, from which you’ll extract a file that ends with .otf or .ttf, or rarely, .ps1 (if you want to nerd out and learn the differences between these, check out this article, but to run the font on your computer, it doesn’t matter).
Once you’ve accurately installed the desktop font, you can use it in any application that runs fonts from your computer’s font library—think Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, and the like.