In this lecture, you will learn how to add custom or google fonts into a
PowerPoint slide. Google fonts is the most popular custom
fonts or the additional fonts compared to the ones that are available by
default in your computer, or that comes with Microsoft PowerPoint. You can browse
through the google fonts in fonts. google.com. But to download and use these
fonts, I recommend Sky fonts. Sky fonts is a
Windows app like this, which enables you to download and use fonts in your PC. Let
me show you how you can install google fonts using Sky fonts. First you need to
download and install this Sky fonts app. After that come to this font.com/web-fonts/Google.
Then click browse google fonts and then you can
browse through the list of fonts, where click on this drop-down button and
choose add, to add this font or you can add an entire family.
Such as when I search for Montserrat font you
get Montserrat 100, 100 Italic, 200, 300, regular, italic and much more. All
these fonts combined together to form Montserrat family. So installing or
checking this add entire family checkbox downloads all the fonts into your
computer. So it's your wish to download either the main regular font or a
particular version or an entire family. This is the easiest way to install
google fonts. But after installing the fonts, you need to restart your
powerpoint to get that font in your powerpoint editing screen. Other than
google fonts there are several other custom fonts are available. But these
custom fonts needs manual installation, i.e. when you click on the download
link, then you will be presented with a TTF file or the font file in some other
format, which you need to right-click and click install. So if you want to install
some 100 or 150 phones fonts and install them.
Whereas in sky fonts, it's much more easier. 1001freefonts.com
and befonts.com, fontspace.com/category/custom.
These are some of the examples, where you can get free custom fonts,
which you can download and use in your presentations. But for most people
google fonts itself is a huge collection, which you can use especially combined
with sky fonts.
You can just go to browse Google Fonts and you can click on this batch install,
where you can select this top 50 Google font families. Just select it, go to the
sky fonts and click add. This will install around 340 fonts into your
computer. After installing those fonts, come back to the slide that we have
designed so far and let me choose the Montserrat font for our heading.
And let me move this logo a bit and then let me choose another font called
Lato light for this subtitle. Similarly I am going to use
another font called
Segoe UI light for our text let me reduce the font size to 12 so these
three forms are the ones that I'm going to use throughout this slide preparation
that is monster at font for our main title letter light for subtitle Segoe UI
light for the body text. But all these three fonts are of a particular type of
font called sans. There is a small difference between sans type of fonts
and serif type of fonts. Sans fonts doesn't have these extended versions or
extended elements in each character. You can see that I or at the end of a or at
the end of M. In science type of fonts there are no traditional extensions in
the end of the characters. Whereas in serif type, you can see that
that I or at the end of M or at the beginning of R, you can see there are
some extensions right? So this is the main difference between serif fonts and
sans fonts. Sans fonts are modern and trendy.
Whereas Serif type of fonts looks a bit traditional but sometimes it adds a
unique look to your presentations. But still I recommend using Sans fonts
like Montserrat, open sans, Segoe UI etc into your PowerPoint
presentations. In the next lecture you will learn how
to add icons inside your PowerPoint presentation.