

Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. I found a solution after looking into it a bit which you can read about here. I’ve been getting a lot of feedback lately from some of you who claim that your fonts still aren’t populating in Inkscape despite following these steps. When you download a new font, it usually comes as a zip file. If any part of these instructions were unclear, please refer to the video tutorial at the top of the page or leave a comment below. Frequent question: How to add fonts to inkscape Download and unzip your new font files.

Newly-added font populated in GIMP And here’s how it looks in Inkscape Once you’ve done that, your newly-added fonts should be ready to use.

If you already have GIMP and/or Inkscape open, you’ll have to close out of them and reopen again in order for the new font(s) to populate in the font directory.
