Add or Remove Fonts From LabVIEW

Updated May 27, 2025

Reported In

Software

  • LabVIEW Professional
  • LabVIEW Full
  • LabVIEW Base

Operating System

  • Windows
  • Linux

Issue Details

  • How do I add, delete, or use additional fonts in LabVIEW that are not in the default font ring?
  • My LabVIEW Icon Editor is missing the Small Fonts, how can I add them again?

Solution

LabVIEW populates the font ring with the fonts that Windows has registered or installed on the system. 

To modify which fonts appear in LabVIEW :

  1. Obtain/download a font file (typically .ttf, .otf, or .fon format)
  2. Double-click the font file and select Install for all users.
  3. Open the Control Panel in Windows and navigate to Appearance and Personalization»Fonts
  1. The new font will appear in this list, and the list of available fonts will be updated accordingly in LabVIEW without having to relaunch LabVIEW
  2. You can remove fonts from LabVIEW by removing them from the Fonts window (highlight the font you want to remove and press Delete)

 

To add fonts for LabVIEW in Linux OS:

  • Download a font file (typically .ttf, .otf, or .fon format, for ex: "Carlito.zip"
  • Extract and move the complete folder to  /usr/share/fonts 

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  • Change the working path to /usr/share/fonts/<Fonts Folder>  (For ex:  /usr/share/fonts/Carlito )
  • Using mkfontscale and mkfontdir to create an index of scalable font files and an index of X font files. Make sure that the files of font.dir and font.scale are created under the folder.

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  • Create a file named 10-fonts.conf with the content below. Where <the folder of fonts> is the folder created previously, /usr/share/fonts/Carlito will be used in this example.
  • Transfer the file (10-fonts.conf) to the device under this path - /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

  • Reboot the Linux PC to see the custom font- "Carlito" available.