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How can I list the family names of installed fonts on Windows?

Any command line utility or any registry paths?

phuclv
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In PowerShell you can get the Font families in two lines, one to load the .NET reflection and the second actually gets the font families:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
(New-Object System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection).Families

The outlook looks similar to:

sample output

phuclv
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Austin T French
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Installed fonts are listed in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts so you can check it with regedit or just run the below command

reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /s

Alternatively run this in PowerShell

Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts'

This gives you the real font names along with their corresponding font files, unlike dir C:\windows\fonts\*.* which

  • only lists font file names and you won't know what things like GenBkBasB.ttf or FRABKIT.TTF represent
  • doesn't care about whether a font file in that folder is registered and usable or not
  • doesn't list user-installed fonts at all because obviously you can't copy files there without administrator rights

Sample output:

PS C:\> reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /s `
| select -First 12

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
    Arial (TrueType)    REG_SZ    arial.ttf
    Arial Black (TrueType)    REG_SZ    ariblk.ttf
    Arial Bold (TrueType)    REG_SZ    arialbd.ttf
    Arial Bold Italic (TrueType)    REG_SZ    arialbi.ttf
    Arial Italic (TrueType)    REG_SZ    ariali.ttf
    Bahnschrift (TrueType)    REG_SZ    bahnschrift.ttf
    Calibri (TrueType)    REG_SZ    calibri.ttf
    Calibri Bold (TrueType)    REG_SZ    calibrib.ttf
    Calibri Bold Italic (TrueType)    REG_SZ    calibriz.ttf
    Calibri Italic (TrueType)    REG_SZ    calibrii.ttf
PS C:> Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts' `
| select -First 12


Arial (TrueType)                                                      : arial.ttf
Arial Black (TrueType)                                                : ariblk.ttf
Arial Bold (TrueType)                                                 : arialbd.ttf
Arial Bold Italic (TrueType)                                          : arialbi.ttf
Arial Italic (TrueType)                                               : ariali.ttf
Bahnschrift (TrueType)                                                : bahnschrift.ttf
Calibri (TrueType)                                                    : calibri.ttf
Calibri Bold (TrueType)                                               : calibrib.ttf
Calibri Bold Italic (TrueType)                                        : calibriz.ttf
Calibri Italic (TrueType)                                             : calibrii.ttf
Calibri Light (TrueType)                                              : calibril.ttf
Calibri Light Italic (TrueType)                                       : calibrili.ttf
Cambria & Cambria Math (TrueType)                                     : cambria.ttc
phuclv
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Another way, using the PresentationCore assembly:

Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationCore
[Windows.Media.Fonts]::SystemFontFamilies | Select-Object -Property Source

(tested on Windows 10)

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arielCo
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These links will list all the font families installed on your computer with preview while online.

If you need you can save the page as *.mht or *.html format from any browser for offline use

Or download FontViewOK which is a portable freeware and preview all installed fonts, even without an internet connection

phuclv
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You can use the command "fc-list" (FontConfig) which is included in MikeTex (as an example). Just run the command as:

fc-list

Or if you want to pipe it to the clipboard (much faster)

fc-list | clip
Jimmy Westberg
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dir C:\windows\fonts\*.* > C:\users\<my_username>\desktop\fontlist.txt

Alternatively, something like this will do what you need it to do :)

Hope this helps

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