You pressed a font.
Now install it.

Two clicks on a computer

where installing is genuinely the easy part

Windows: right-click the .otf → Install. Or double-click it and press the Install button on the preview. Done — it's in Word, Photoshop, everything. Apps already running need a restart to notice the new arrival.

macOS: double-click the .otf and Font Book opens with one big Install button. If Font Book offers to validate first, let it — a font pressed from your own hand passes. It appears under the name you gave it, filed alphabetically between the fonts that cost money.

Linux: copy the file into ~/.local/share/fonts/ and run fc-cache -f — or just double-click it in most desktop environments and press Install there too.

Phones are fussier

possible, with one detour

iPhone and iPad take fonts through a font-installer app: several free ones on the App Store wrap your .otf in a configuration profile, you approve it in Settings, and the font appears in Pages, Keynote, and other apps that read installed fonts. Android has no polite system-wide route — but apps with their own font import take the file directly, and everything else can be reached the dependable way: make the document on a computer and send a PDF, which carries the letters inside it.

Where it won't go, honestly

limits worth knowing before you blame the font

• Google Docs in the browser — only offers its own font catalogue; it cannot load a file from your computer, and no add-on genuinely fixes that
• Word for the web — same story; desktop Word reads installed fonts happily
• Canva — takes uploaded fonts, but only on paid plans (brand kit → upload font); free Canva won't
• email and shared docs — the recipient sees your font only if they installed it too; when the letters must arrive intact, send a PDF, which embeds them
• websites — that's what the press's web (.css) button is for: an @font-face stylesheet with the font riding inside it

When the menu shows tofu

the two-minute checklist

1. Restart the app. Most font menus are read at launch; your new font arrived after.
2. Check the name. It's filed under the name you typed at the press — "My Handwriting" unless you renamed it.
3. A character prints as a box? That character isn't in the font — head back to the press, ink the missing cell (the tray shows what's drawn), and press again. Installing the new version over the old one replaces it.

No font to install yet? The whole ceremony — draw, proof, press — starts at the press, and takes about fifteen minutes. Collecting someone else's hand first? The worksheet is the paper half of that.