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If they work for you (or if they don’t!), drop a comment below. Fine, but my client didn’t have this option! If this is the situation you find yourself in, here are instructions for adding new fonts that will be read by Inkscape (and Gimp). This means when you have downloaded a font, instead of double-clicking then clicking Install you have to right-click and choose Install for all users instead. In my client’s case, it was because the fonts were not installed for all users.

The new solution involves nothing more complicated (on Windows) than installing them in the standard fonts directory (C:WindowsFonts) but it also seems that in some cases this also fails to work. Typical! The question then, is how to solve this persistent issue with Inkscape when the SkyFonts (which I find has become unreliable and unstable) workaround doesn’t work? In addition to Times-compatible glyphs, some portions of the STIX Fonts include other design styles such as sans-serif, monospace, Fraktur, Script. When a client was asked me about this, I directed them to my original post, only to discover that those instructions no longer work. Install fonts On your Mac, do any of the following: In the Font Book app, click the Add button in the Font Book toolbar, locate and select a font, then click. I wrote a post a few months ago about using SkyFonts to install new fonts in Inkscape, a freeware graphic design package that is a great substitute for Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.