- IOS and macOS come with many preinstalled fonts that can be used by your app’s user interface. Additional fonts are available for download or as needed by document-based apps.
- System Font Replacement. This special Input Sans font package was originally designed to replace the Helvetica-based system font on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Like Input, it is available free of charge for private and unpublished use.
- The primary system font in OS X El Capitan and above is San Francisco. OS X Yosemite used Helvetica Neue, and preceding versions largely employed Lucida Grande.For labels and other small text, 10 pt Lucida Grande was typically used. Lucida Grande is almost identical in appearance to the prevalent Windows font Lucida Sans, and contains a larger variety of glyphs.
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Mac OS X Font Folder Locations: USER - Library- Fonts Hard Drive - Library - Fonts Hard Drive - System - Library - Fonts. Copy the font your using to your Desktop. In the example, we copied SF Archery Black font to our Desktop. We need to edit our Font file to be able to be used as a Mac OS X system font. Download TTFEdit. Some Font Links. The following fonts are available to support additional characters not available in the default system fonts. All fonts are free for commercial use and can be installed on both Windows and Mac OS X except where noted. System 9 does not fully support Unicode fonts. TITUS Cyberbit - Free Unicode Font with serif characters.
System Font Replacement
This special Input Sans font package was originally designed to replace the Helvetica-based system font on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Like Input, it is available free of charge for private and unpublished use.
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Please note: now that Apple has introduced the San Francisco font (a big improvement over Helvetica!), I may not be as zealous about tweaking these fonts for future versions of Mac OS. Get in touch for a beta version for Sierra.
Install
Simply place the font files in /Library/Fonts. Log out and log back in for all changes to take effect.
Uninstall
To uninstall, remove the files from the /Library/Fonts directory. Log out and in again for all changes to take effect.
More Info
These special fonts contain metadata that allow them to masquerade as the system font family, and will not install like normal fonts. Installation is a nondestructive process: by placing the fonts in your /Library/Fonts folder, you can override the defaults without modifying system files or configuration. Simply remove these font files and everything goes back to normal.
This approach was inspired by Jens Kutílek’s Fira System Font Replacement.
These fonts have been scaled and adjusted to make them more suitable for use in Yosemite’s interface, and stem weights, letterspacing, and certain letterforms have been changed.
Known Issues
System font replacement is not perfect. Still it’s pretty amazing it works as well as it does.
Some apps, such as the App Store or Chrome, use the local copy of Helvetica or Helvetica Neue rather than the System Font. This means that you still might see bits of Helvetica pop up now and then. Such is life.
The vertical alignment of Chrome tab labels is too low. We haven’t found a way to repair this without creating other issues. If you are a big Chrome user, this fix will address this issue but will cause small alignment issues elsewhere.
If the fast user switching menu is active, the vertical alignment of the username is also too low. Again, we haven’t found a way to repair this without creating other issues.
There have been reports of unreadable placeholder glyphs appearing instead of text. First, make sure the fonts are installed in the top level /Library/Fonts directory instead of the user directory, as this will fix this problem in most instances. There have been reports of placeholders still showing up when changing system fonts or making in-app purchases. There is no known fix. Try logging out and back in, and if in doubt, uninstall the fonts. Or keep them, and you can think of it as extra security as you type in your password.
Solved Issues
Download the latest version to address replacement issues in Messages and Firefox Developer Edition.
We previously recommended that you place fonts in your /User/Library/Fonts, which causes some security dialogs will appear as unreadable placeholder glyphs. To avoid this, move the fonts to your top level /Library/Fonts directory.
About Input
Input is a customizable typeface family designed for setting code and data, complete with Sans, Serif, and Monospaced versions in a variety of widths and weights. Read more about the full family, see it in action, and download it here.
In A History of Font Technologies, I talked a bit about font technologies on the Mac. If you are unfamiliar with terms like “bitmapped” or “outline” fonts, you might want to read that article first. Here I am going to discuss the fonts that Apple has shipped with the Mac. I am on my way to an unusual suggestion that I hope you will consider.
When the Macintosh first shipped, it had a number of bitmapped fonts. Back in 1990, when I started working with Macs, there were a number of standard fonts that are still familiar today, such as Chicago, Geneva, Helvetica, Palatino, and Times. These shipped with System 6 and earlier versions of the Mac OS.
But early Macs also had a bunch of funky fonts that gave the Mac loads of character. There were dingbat fonts (picture fonts) like Cairo and Mobile. The San Francisco font, which looked like a ransom note, lent itself to playful documents. The Venice font was a favorite of many, since it was an easy to read script-like font.
In 1991, System 7 introduced TrueType fonts that were scaleable to any size. Apple did not make TrueType versions of all of the funky fonts, but they did make versions of the more businesslike fonts, such as Helvetica and Palatino. After a few years of transition, nearly everyone uses only outline fonts like TrueType or PostScript.
In System 7.5, Apple introduced its last bitmapped fonts – Espy Sans and Espy Serif. These fonts were designed to look good on screens. Apple made these fonts for its Newton PDA and used them for its fated online service called eWorld. Around that time there were screen shots of the next generation Mac Operating System; it used Espy Sans Bold for it’s system font instead of Chicago.
You might be saying to yourself, “Wait! I’ve had System 7.5 on my Quadra for years, and I’ve never seen any Espy Sans font.” This font wasn’t installed in the Fonts folder inside the System Folder. Instead, it was inside the Apple Guide and could only be released for general use by using a program like ResEdit.
With Mac OS 8, Apple introduced an alternative system font named Charcoal. It was a TrueType font that looked a little bit like a cross between Chicago and Espy Sans Bold – people were expecting Espy as the new System font. Hidden inside the Appearance Manager that provided Charcoal, was the hint of future system fonts that finally showed up in System 8.5 like Gadget, Capitals, Sand, and Techno. The Gadget font was my personal favorite, and a survey I suggested on ResExcellence showed that it was the favorite of readers of that site. These fonts reintroduced some of the character that the Mac used to have back in System 6.
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Note: Espy Sans was last used as the system font on the iPod mini in 2005.
A Suggestion
Before I give my unusual suggestion, let me ask you a question. Do you print pages from Low End Mac? If not, my suggestion is to use Espy Sans and Espy Serif for everything. (Download espy.sea [24K].)
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I have two reasons for suggesting this. First, the Espy fonts are fabulous screen fonts. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I taught some word processing to teachers at my school. I saw four teachers in a row drawn to Espy fonts because they were so easy to read. Second, bitmapped fonts like Espy display slightly faster than TrueType fonts, especially on older Macs like the Macintosh Plus, SE, and Classic.
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To go even farther, you might throw out a bunch of your TrueType fonts. Start with the fonts you never use. If you have an 80 MB or smaller hard drive (common on early Macs), you might gain a megabyte or two of hard drive space. You can keep the bitmapped versions of the fonts (which have 1 A on their icon instead of the 3 A’s on a TrueType font.)
If you do print, I still suggest that you weed out your font folder. You might keep Palatino and Helvetica, because they are TrueType fonts that print great, but they also have bitmaps that are optimized for your screen. You might toss out New York (it doesn’t print as well as Palatino) and Times (it doesn’t look as good on the screen as Palatino). If you have fewer fonts, you will be faster with your Mac, since you won’t have to scroll through as many font options. I know that many Mac users are font fanatics – I used to be one of them. But in the end most people keep returning to few favorite fonts. Why not get rid of the fonts you don’t use?
A caveat about this suggestion: Don’t throw out something unless you are sure that you won’t want it in the future. You might just move fonts out of the font folder instead of trashing them.
In my next article, I’ll talk about a how you can use Espy for everything.
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Sources for Espy and Espy-like Fonts
- Boston Omnis FTP Download Index for Espy Sans and Espy Serif.
- Download espy.sea from Low End Mac.
- The Nu Font Pack by Marty Pfeiffer. Nu Sans and Nu Serif are based on Espy Sans and Espy Serif, respectively. Available in both TrueType and Postscript versions. Shareware.
- Epsy Sans, TrueType and Postscript Type 1 adaptations of Apple’s Espy Sans font. Free.
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