One such task is linking the SkyFonts manager to Inkscape.īy default, fonts that you add into SkyFonts won’t show up in the fonts list in Inkscape.

But of course this is freeware, which means sometimes workarounds are necessary to accomplish a few tasks that you might take for granted when using paid for software. I find Inkscape to more akin to the old Corel Draw vector software, which I always found more intuitive than Illustrator. If they work for you (or if they don’t!), drop a comment below.Two pieces of free software I like to use are SkyFonts, a font manager that you use to manage any non-system fonts downloaded from Google Fonts or, and Inkscape, a free vector graphics tool that is a good freeware substitute for Adobe Illustrator. 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?

When a client was asked me about this, I directed them to my original post, only to discover that those instructions no longer work. 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.

How to download fonts for inkscape