How to Install New Fonts to Inkscape and Where to Get Them

You probably want to make a logo and you don't like the fonts Inkscape is showing you. Blame your operating system. Inkscape is showing you the list from that. That is actually a good thing. A software coming with its own fonts would be too heavy. You are spared from the space invasion. Now to use a font that you like, you have to put it inside your operating system's font folder. Inkscape then will make it visible for your use. How to do it? Check the steps. Once you install one, you will find it listed by other graphics editors also including Pixlr. In short, it will not stay limited to just Inkscape.

Where to Get Free Fonts

Fonts are very time consuming to make and thus, they are not always free. The artists are quite sensitive about who uses them. If you are looking for free fonts to use in a text or logo for some kind of business stay careful. Free does not equal to free for all. Do take a look at the kind of license they come with. It is really best to go for public domain fonts since they are not very restrictive. Still verify if the artist allows free for commercial use. Most sites will show the license type of each font. Reviewing it will help. You can also email the artist to be on the safe side. For public domain fonts, you can go for the following sites:

1001fonts
Font Meme
Font Squirrel

All of them allow preview of fonts by letting you type in a field whatever you want. Play around. See what you like. Finalize whatever you want. Otherwise, learning the steps, just choose something randomly. At this point, please do not keep your Inkscape open. Close it. If you are working on some graphics save them.

How to Install

Let's go to 1001 Fonts. From there, we pick Headlines. You can see it highlighted below.

From page 2, we choose Beyond Wonderland font. Click the green download button.

Try downloading it to your desktop. This makes the zipped file visible without forcing you to go through a list of folders. Click save.

After dowloading it, go to your desktop and you will see it standing there. Right click it and then choose Extract All.

After extraction, the following folder will show up. From this, click the folder titled Beyond Wonderland.

After opening this new folder, you will find a file that has A icon. Just copy it.

Now if your OS comes with search bar you can directly write into it fonts to get to font folder. Otherwise, go to Control Panel.

If you have Control Panel open, click it to get to Appearance and Personalization.

At the end of the Appearance and Personalization list you will find Font. Just click it.

When the window is open press CTRL and V together. The following result will be what you will get then.

You can then search for the font in this liberary by its name. Please remember it. You can also note it down. 

Next you can open your Inkscape. To see the font you have downloaded, all you have to do is click A icon which actually is the button for text.

Go to the list of fonts you will find above.

Type Beyond and your font title will appear. Just choose it it to start making your logo. You can, of course, browse the entire list to get to that font. That is just totally fine.

Now just carry out making your logo or any other text. From the list, go for your newly installed font.