Linking to Zip Files
This is undoubtedly the most commonly asked question I get. It’s probably the hardest to answer. Lots of people want to put fonts on their sites for others to download, and this works great if you want to provide people with a special font for your layout, but if you don’t provide it, odds are they don’t have it.
The first step to doing this correctly, is making sure YOU have the font on your computer. If you only have it in your fonts folder, keep reading. If you have it in a Zip folder, click here
I can only tell you how to do this with Winzip, so you must have this program. I run it in wizard mode, it makes it easier to use. Open the program. Click through the first next. On the second screen click “Create a New Zip File.”
Click “Next”, then type in the name of the font.
Click “next”, then click “add files”. Find your fonts folder. Now, you may not simply double click a font to select it, this will open font preview. You must type in the full or partial name in the file name area. When the drop down appears, select your font, and hit enter. If you only need to add one file, click zip now.
For some specialty fonts, there are separate files for bold, italic, special characters, etc, that all belong to that one font. You should include all of these in one zip folder.
Make sure you know where you saved your zip folder. Open your FTP program, or webshell, and upload the zip files. Then go to the page you want to place the link on, and link directly to the zip file.
<a href="http://domain.com/file.zip">Link</a>When a visitor clicks on the link, he/she will download and unzip the font onto their computer.
