These optional features installed if, for instance, you occasionally browse in Edge to sites that have Chinese, Hebrew or Tamil text. While all these international fonts have been moved into optional features, every Windows 10 system still includes fonts that provide comprehensive coverage of international languages and the Unicode character encoding standard. For example, the DaunPenh, Khmer UI and MoolBoran fonts were all designed primarily to support Khmer, and are now in the Khmer Supplemental Fonts feature. Included in Windows 8.1 were moved into optional features in Windows 10. A comprehensive list of the font families in each of the optional features is provided below.Īll of these fonts are organized into optional features that are associated with particular languages. In order to optimize system resources and user experience using fonts, many fonts that were Having fonts that aren't needed or being used provides no benefit, but they take up system resources and clutter up font lists with options that have no relevance.

(or German, Arabic, Ukrainian.) speakers don't use Gurmukhi or Japanese writing, but they still would all have these fonts on their system, and many others intended for particular languages. Windows supports many languages, and many of the fonts are intended primarily for use with particular languages.įor example, the Meiryo or Raavi font can be used for English, but they were added to Windows to support other languges: Meiryo was created to support Japanese Raavi was created to support Panjabi or other languages written in Gurmukhi script. Since Windows Vista, every Windows system has included all Windows fonts.

If you need to use a font in one of these optional features, any of them can be installed on any Windows 10 system, as explained below.

The result is that the fonts in those optional features After upgrading to Windows 10, these optional features may not be installed on your system. Many fonts that shipped in prior versions of Windows have been moved into optional features in Windows 10. Some users have found that certain fonts they use are missing after upgrading to Windows 10.įor example, if the English (or German, Spanish.) version of Windows 10 was installed, then the Gautami, Meiryo, Narkism.

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