The View as List option displays the available fonts in the list format. The Larger Previews option provides a larger view of the available fonts. The Smaller Previews option provides a smaller view of available fonts. The Open the Font Selection Dialog option will open a new dialog window for the font family. For example, the View as Grid option provides a grid view of the fonts: There are following five fonts options are given below the font list:Īll of the above options are display fonts in their style. We can find a font family by typing the starting letter of it.also we can type Aa for scrolling the complete list. The CTRL+F keys provide a find button for finding the fonts. If we add a new font, the list can be refreshed by the given refresh icon at the bottom of this menu. From this menu, we can select fonts, refresh the font list.

We can activate the fonts by navigating to the Windows-> Dockable dialogs-> Fonts menu. We can select any of the given font family by clicking on it. The tool GIMP menu contains fonts options which can be displayed by clicking on the Aa icon. The font dialog box can be seen in the text's tool options menu. There are some preinstalled fonts available in GIMP also, some fonts can be installed later.īefore adding some useful fonts in GIMP, let's understand the font dialog box.

Fonts are useful for adding attractive text to the image. Some notable fonts are TrueType, OpenType and Type1.