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How do I install College fonts on Windows?

How do I install College fonts on Windows?

The College brand guidelines recommend using the Satoshi font for College marketing and communication materials. Most staff and faculty should already have these fonts installed via our management tools. If you have a BYO or unmanaged Windows device, follow these instructions to download and install Satoshi on your computer.

Instructions

  1. Download the font family from the font owner - https://www.fontshare.com/fonts/satoshi

Downloading closed source fonts from a third party website is generally illegal. Doing so may expose the College to legal liability and your computer to malware. Only download fonts from trusted sources and always adhere to the license requirements.

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  1. Extract the downloaded font archive (if needed)

    • Locate the downloaded .zip file in your Downloads folder.

    • Right‑click the file and choose Extract All…, then click Extract.

    • Open the extracted folder.

  2. Navigate to the OTF fonts folder and select all 10 .otf:

    1. Select all by clicking the first and shift-clicking the last, or by pressing the Ctrl A keyboard shortcut.

  3. Option A – Install for current user

    • Right‑click on any of the selected fonts and click Install.

    • This installs the fonts only for your Windows user account.

  4. Option B – Install for all users (recommended for shared computers)

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    1. Right‑click on any of the selected fonts and click Install for all users.

    2. If prompted by User Account Control, click Yes.

    3. This installs the fonts for everyone who uses the computer.

Once installed, the Satoshi fonts should be available in most applications (e.g. Microsoft Office, Adobe apps, web browsers that support custom fonts).

Additional Help

Read on for some additional questions we think you might have. If you can’t find an answer to your question here you can contact the IT help desk.

Whilst your computer can automatically convert a single “regular” font to bold or italic, font variants are specially designed to look good at different weights and in different styles. Instead of the computer having to guess what the italic version should look like, the designer has provided versions that are carefully shaped and spaced for different styles, ensuring your text looks polished, readable, and balanced.

If the font is installed it should be available in the font list of most Windows apps. You can double-check by opening the Fonts control panel and searching for it by name.

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You can also try to install the font again. If it’s already installed, the installer will warn you and suggest you skip installation:

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To remove a font, open the Fonts control panel and search for it by name (see above). Open the font, scroll down, and click Uninstall:

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Installed OTF fonts should be available in any modern app but some legacy or non-standard applications may not support the system font picker. If the font is showing up in some apps but not others (and you can’t use a different, better-behaving app), here are some other things you can try:

  • Restart the app (or, if in doubt, restart your PC). Apps such as Microsoft Word cache fonts at startup and may need to be relaunched

  • If the app has its own font system, install the fonts directly in the app. Instructions are beyond the scope of this article

  • Try installing the TTF font(s) and restart the app. Note: installing TTF and OTF versions of the same font may cause duplicate fonts to appear in font menus of some apps.

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