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

Any command line utility or any registry paths?

5 Answers

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:

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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

Sample output:

PS C:\> reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /s `
| select -First 12HKEY_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.ttfPS C:\> Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts' `
| select -First 12Arial (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

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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)

• Fonts Class (System.Windows.Media)
• FontFamily Class (System.Windows.Media)
• Using Static Classes and Methods - PowerShell

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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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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

• Which fonts are installed on your computer?

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

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