Installing new fonts

Throughout this chapter, I’ll be using a variety of fonts to demonstrate, but where did I get all these wonderful fonts and how did I get them into Inkscape?

At the time of writing this book, I generally get all my fonts from Google’s massive font website: https://fonts.google.com/. The reason for this is that Google meticulously curates the best free and open fonts, which can be used professionally anywhere without you having to pay license fees. Additionally, the SIL Open Font License in which all of these fonts are included ensures that you can use, edit, and extend the character set for your purposes.

This ultimate flexibility is why I choose fonts from this list rather than proprietary fonts. There are thousands of excellent fonts in this archive, freely available to download. Google has a very nice site with a great search engine for finding just what you want.

As an example, let’s download and install one, which we will use...