The process is similar in other versions of Windows as well. The steps in our guide below will show you how to install a font to your Windows 7 computer. Our tutorial will walk you through the process of extracting and installing a font that you have saved to your computer. But what if you have a fun new font that you want to use, but can’t seem to figure out how to get that font into Microsoft Paint? Fortunately Paint uses the Windows library to get its fonts, which means that you will need to install the font to your computer. Microsoft Paint has a text tool that you can use to write words and numbers on your images.