While many Windows users download and install the Yale typeface without problems, there are some common issues.

1. Unfamiliarity with the installation process. Please follow the steps outlined here to perform a standard installation. You must first “expand” the files that you download. Generally this occurs automatically if you have a Zip utility configured to work with your browser.

On all computers, fonts are installed so that they are available to all programs via the computer’s operating system. In other words, once you install the Yale typeface on your machine, it will be available to Word and any other programs that access fonts, without your needing to “load it” into individual programs.

Here is the procedure:
Open the Start menu, open Settings, open Control Panel, find the Fonts directory icon & open it; in the Fonts window open the File menu (on the menu bar) and click Install New Font. This will give you a navigation window from which you need to locate the newly downloaded and expanded Yale font directory; open that directory and Select All. Click OK. You will need to quit and reload any open applications so that they can access the newly installed fonts. If you are installing the new (2008) version of the Yale typeface, be sure to delete all older versions first.

2. Working with older operating systems. Windows 98 and Windows ME (especially) seem to balk at properly displaying Type I Postscript fonts.

3. Working with Microsoft Word. Word for Windows handled the first release of the Yale fonts idiosyncratically. The new (2008) release remedies these issues. Please remove all older versions and replace them with the 2008 release.

Please feel free to contact John Gambell, University Printer, if you have additional questions.