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Install fonts

Double-click the font in the Finder, then click Install Font in the font preview window that opens. After your Mac validates the font and opens the Font Book app, the font is installed and available for use.

Looking for Mac fonts? Click to find the best 66 free fonts in the Mac style. Every font is free to download! Preinstalled Fonts. Enabled automatically by macOS and iOS. Displayed if used by an app in a document. Downloadable Fonts. Can be downloaded using Font Book.

You can use Font Book preferences to set the default install location, which determines whether the fonts you add are available to other user accounts on your Mac.

Fonts that appear dimmed in Font Book are either disabled ('Off'), or are additional fonts available for download from Apple. To download the font, select it and choose Edit > Download.

Disable fonts

You can disable any font that isn't required by your Mac. Select the font in Font Book, then choose Edit > Disable. The font remains installed, but no longer appears in the font menus of your apps. Fonts that are disabled show ”Off” next to the font name in Font Book.

Remove fonts

You can remove any font that isn't required by your Mac. Select the font in Font Book, then choose File > Remove. Font Book moves the font to the Trash.

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macOS supports TrueType (.ttf), Variable TrueType (.ttf), TrueType Collection (.ttc), OpenType (.otf), and OpenType Collection (.ttc) fonts. macOS Mojave adds support for OpenType-SVG fonts.

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Legacy suitcase TrueType fonts and PostScript Type 1 LWFN fonts might work but aren't recommended.

Safe web fonts

A very nice discussion of the history of typefaces is taken fromhttp://www.xnet.se/xpo/typetalk/ and archived here.

Another font comparison pageis here,archived here. The same site hasmore excellentinformation about fonts here,archived here.

Another document cross-linking fonts is here.

The fonts that are most safe to use are:

Other options that usually work cross-platform are:

  • Palatino
  • Garamond
  • Bookman
  • Avant Garde
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Fonts that work on Windows and MacOS but not Unix+X are:

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  • Verdana
  • Georgia
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Trebuchet MS
  • Arial Black
  • Impact

Common sans-serif fonts

Helvetica is the granddaddy here, but Arial is more common onmodern OS's.

Helvetica

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Helvetica is a sans-serif font. It is a good choice for shorttext, perhaps a paragraph or two in length. Unix and Macintoshcomputers have had always had Helvetica, and it is a native fonton PostScript printers.

Arial

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Arial is near-copy of Helvetica, updated slightly. Windows usesArial in place of Helvetica.

Common serif fonts

Times is the grand-daddy of serif fonts, but Times New Roman ismore common on recent OS's.

Times

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Times (also called Times Roman) is the traditional seriffont. It is available on Macintosh and Unix computers, and is acore PostScript font. Times was designed for use as newspapercolumn text. It has a small size, compared to most other fonts.

Times New Roman

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Times New Roman is Microsoft's version of Times. It is availableon Windows computers, and most Macintosh computers.

Common monospace fonts

Designed to mimic typewritten output, these fonts are often usedwhen writing code. Courier is the grand-daddy, while most recentOS's have Courier New.

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Courier

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Courier is the traditional monospace font. It is available onMacintosh and Unix computers, and is a core PostScript font.

Courier New

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Courier New is Microsoft's version of Courier. Most Windows andMacintosh computers will have Courier New.

Less-common sans-serif fonts

Verdana is popular, but still new to the scene. Tahoma's styleis half-way between Verdana and Arial. Comic Sans MS is oftenliked for its informal feel. Avante Garde is big and spacious.Impact and Arial Black are both designed for titles andheadings. All of the fonts in this section suffer from theproblem that most Unix machines don't have the fonts.

Verdana

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From around 2000 until mid-2002, Microsoft distributed a set ofWeb-optimized fonts, for free use. They have stopped allowingdownloads, but still ship the fonts with Windows. Verdana is asans-serif replacement. Its lowercase letters are very large,compared to the overall size of the font, which makes text easyto read on the web.

Unfortunately, the stretching of Verdana lowercase letters hastwo drawbacks. One issue is that the stretched letters don'tlook quite right when printed—compare them to Arial, forexample. The other problem is that some people don't have theVerdana font, and these people may have trouble reading a webpage that uses Verdana. The problem is that while 9 ptVerdana is readable, 9 pt Arial is not readable, and aperson who doesn't have Verdana will probably have their webbrowser choose Arial as the substitute font.

Tahoma

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Tahoma is another of Microsoft's web fonts. It is not as widelyavailable as Verdana or Arial are.

Arial Black

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Arial Black is a version of Arial designed for headlines.

Comic Sans MS

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Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif font with a soft, rounded style.

Impact

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Impact is a Microsoft Web font, designed for headlines.

Avant Garde

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Avant Garde or Century Gothic. HP Printers call this AvantGarde Gothic.

Less-common serif fonts

Georgia is a web-optimized serif font, but is still a newcomer.Palatino is as old and established as Times is, butlooks terrible on recent Unixsystems. Century Schoolbook, Garamond, and Bookman seem to beavailable on Unix systems, but I am not sure how widespread theyare on Windows/Mac systems.

Georgia

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Georgia is a Microsoft Web font. It has serifs but also haslarge lowercase letters, similar to Verdana. It is a nicelyreadable screen font, but has the same problems that Verdanadoes: it looks bad when printed, and paged designed for Georgiawill look bad if rendered in Times, because of the difference inletter size.

Palatino
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Palatino is a less-commonly used serif font. It is available onMacintosh and Unix computers, and is a core PostScript font. Itis available on Windows computers under alternate font names.

Palatino was originally designed as a display font—forexample, to be used in lettering on signs. Nevertheless, itis commonly used to set body text.

Bookman

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Bookman, also called Bookman Old Style.Not shipped with WinXP. Shipped with MS Office 2000.

Garamond

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Garamond. There are a lot of variants of this font.Not shipped with WinXP.

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Century Schoolbook

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Century Schoolbook is a core postscript font. You cannot rely onits being present on Windows computers.Not shipped with WinXP.

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Less-common monospace fonts

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Andale Mono is similar to Verdana and Georgia; it is a new font,not widespread, and not available on Unix or on some Windows computers.

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Andale Mono

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Andale Mono is yet another Microsoft's monospace typeface. Ithas some resemblance to Monaco.Not shipped with WinXP.