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I thought I understood where fonts are stored on Windows (Windows 10 in this case):

C:\Windows\Fonts

I'm looking for the Nyala font specifically, which I can select in MS Office, e.g. Word. I was looking into the above folder using Windows Explorer, Total Commander (TC), and System Control Panel -> Fonts. Neither show a file called nyala.ttf. I have also searched the all of C:\Windows for a file called nyala.ttf but TC did not show any.

According to Microsoft's Windows 10 font list Nyala is listed as *Ethiopic Supplemental Font". This and the fact that I can select the font in MS-Office documents seem to indicate it must be somewhere. What am I missing?

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With the sale of fonts via the Microsoft Store, there’s now a complication in the familiar way fonts are managed in Windows 10 and how Office for Windows handles new fonts.

For as long as anyone can remember, all Windows fonts where in a single folder: C:\Windows\Fonts. But not anymore …

Fonts installed from the Microsoft Store are put into Windows in an entirely new method. These fonts are placed in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\ a hidden folder. If you have access rights, each font is in it’s own folder. (screenshot)

The familiar "Control Panel" has been the place to manage fonts. It’s still in Windows 10 but does NOT show any fonts from the Microsoft Store. That’s because the ‘old’ Control Panel system only looks in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.

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Manually Installing a Font on Windows 10

In addition to what has been said in the accepted answer, I found that by manually installing a font (TTF file) on Windows 10 (can't tell for other versions of Windows), the TTF file is placed in folder

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts

The font is listed, though, when looking into folder

C:\Windows\Fonts

or when looking at fonts via Control Panel -> Fonts

A font installed this way is available only to the user who installed it.

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