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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label instfont</title>
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<h3>Installing a new font</h3>
<p>Fonts are really "just another package", and so should be installed
in the same sort of way as packages. However, fonts tend to be more
complicated than the average package, and as a result it's sometimes
difficult to see the overall structure.
<p>Font files may appear in any of a large number of different formats;
each format has a different function in a TeX system, and each is
stored in a directory its own sub-tree in the installation's
TDS tree; all these sub-trees have the directory
<i>$TEXMF/fonts</i> as their root. A sequence of answers
describes the installation of fonts:
follow the list through the "next question" links at the bottom of
this answer to view them all.
Other answers discuss specific font families - see, for example,
"<a href="FAQ-concrete.html">using the concrete fonts</a>".
<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfont">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfont</a>
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