Hello! Quick Photoshop troubleshooting today!

Are you unable to get Adobe Photoshop CS6 to recognize a newly installed font and yet, it’s clearly in your C:\Windows\Fonts folder?

Well here’s two possible solutions!:

a) Install the font in Windows

Once you have your new font, simply right-click it and choose “install“. This will automatically install the font in Windows. Then restart your computer and your new font should be available system wide for every installed applications.

b) Copy new font directly into Photoshop’s fonts folder

1. Close Photoshop, then copy that new font in Photoshop’s Fonts folder located here:

Program Files (x86) > Common Files > Adobe > Fonts

2. Reopen Photoshop and you should be good to go!

Enjoy!

Sirus

References
-http://seane.deviantart.com/journal/Getting-CS6-to-see-a-font-when-it-refuses-to-do-so-638189432

l0I! Fonts and programming

LO0iIl – now, can you tell which character is a zero? Letter “o”? “i”? Lowercase “l”? Probably not. The only way to differentiate them is by the FONT‘s type. A good font lets you differentiate these characters. WordPress’ default font does an average job at it, since we can tell the difference between all characters, except for the zero “0” and the letter “o”. That’s a problem.

I’ve realized for quite some time that most fonts ARE crap when it comes to programming/coding. When characters that should and MUST be different look the same, you have problems. Especially when coding sensitive stuff; a single wrong character can sometime very often be fatal in software programming.

Hack ‘n’ Slash

Slashed-zero should be mandatory, but some weirdos still think it’s more “beautiful” without the slash. Communication is always the number one issue in any organization. Non-slashed zeroes is the path to the dark side. Non-slashed zero leads to confusion, confusion leads to costly mistakes, costly mistakes leads to suffering.

It’s like those people who, wanting to do well, write down their passwords for the sysadmin in uppercase to make sure each characters are readable… and wonder why the next morning the password they asked for isn’t working… (recurring true story)

Consolas

Here’s for example the font I’m now using and strongly recommend:

CONSOLAS

Try it in your favorite editor like Notepad++ and see by yourself the difference! It’s usually included by default, so no need to download any external font libraries.

CMD

Note that you can change Windows CMD console’s font with a quick Regedit. (See references)

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Enjoy!

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References
-http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-for-programming
-http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UsingConsolasAsTheWindowsConsoleFont.aspx
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnFr-DOPf8

Extra Read
-http://openfontlibrary.org/
-http://understandingfonts.com/
-http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2276764/courier-new-with-slashed-0-zero-and-distinct-1-one