You can find tons of free fonts and paid fonts all over the internet and you can use them all with your Silhouette Studio software. If it can be installed on your computer, the software will allow you use it to design. There are a few considerations though that will make a BIG difference.
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.
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.
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- Mac OS X recognizes TrueType and OpenType fonts (.ttf and.otf) but not the PC bitmap fonts (.fon). Files are compressed, you may need an utility like Stuffit Expander. Under Mac OS X 10.3 or above (including the FontBook) Double-click the font file 'Install font' button at the bottom of the preview.
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.
Legacy suitcase TrueType fonts and PostScript Type 1 LWFN fonts might work but aren't recommended.
This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that shipped with language-specific updates from Apple (primarily Korean and Chinese fonts). For fonts shipped only with Mac OS X 10.5, please see Apple's documentation.
System fonts up to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion[edit]
| Family Name | Subtype | Styles Available | Target script and other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Bayan | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Arabic |
| American Typewriter | serif, book | Condensed Light, Condensed, Condensed Bold, Light, Regular, Bold | |
| Andalé Mono | sans, mono, book | Regular | |
| Apple Casual | sans, title | Regular | Hidden, see below |
| Apple Chancery | script | Regular | |
| Apple Garamond | serif, book | Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Hidden, see below |
| Apple Gothic | sans, book | Regular | Korean |
| Apple LiGothic | non-Latin | Medium | Traditional Chinese |
| Apple LiSung | non-Latin | Light | Traditional Chinese |
| Apple Myungjo | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Apple Symbols | picto | Regular | |
| .AquaKana | Regular | Japanese, Not depicted below | |
| Arial | sans, book | Condensed Light, Narrow, Narrow Italic, Narrow Bold, Narrow Bold Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Rounded Bold, Bold Italic, Black | Bundled with Windows |
| Arial Hebrew | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Hebrew |
| Ayuthaya | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Baghdad | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic |
| Baskerville | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Semi-bold, Semi-bold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Beijing | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese; bitmap only |
| BiauKai | non-Latin | Regular | Traditional Chinese; missing in Yosemite and El Capitan until Sierra. |
| Big Caslon | serif, book | Medium | |
| Browallia New | non-Latin | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Thai |
| BrowalliaUPC | non-Latin | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Thai |
| Brush Script | script | Italic | |
| Candara | sans, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Chalkboard | sans, title | Regular, Bold | Bold added in 10.4; Bold not depicted below |
| Chalkduster | sans, book | Regular | added in 10.6; not depicted below |
| Charcoal | sans, book | Regular | Classic only |
| Charcoal CY | non-Latin, sans | Regular | Cyrillic |
| Chicago | sans, book | Regular | Classic only, see Krungthep below |
| Cochin | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | ||
| Comic Sans | sans, deco | Regular, Bold | Bundled with Windows |
| Consolas | sans, mono | Regular, Italic, Bold, Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Cooper | serif, book | Black | |
| Copperplate | serif, title, small caps | Light, Regular, Bold | |
| Corsiva Hebrew | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Hebrew |
| Courier | serif mono, book | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | |
| Courier New | serif mono, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| DecoType Naskh | non-Latin | Regular | Naskh Arabic; not depicted below |
| Devanagari | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Devanagari |
| Didot | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold | |
| Euphemia UCAS | Regular, Italic, Bold | Canadian Syllabics; not depicted below | |
| Futura | sans, book | Condensed Medium, Condensed Extra Bold, Medium, Medium Italic | |
| Gadget | sans, title | Regular | Classic only |
| Geeza Pro | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Arabic |
| Geezah | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic |
| Geneva | sans, book | Regular | |
| Geneva CY | non-Latin, sans | Regular | Cyrillic |
| Georgia | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Gill Sans | sans, book | Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Gujarati | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Gujarati |
| Gung Seoche | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#GungSeo' in font list |
| Gurmukhi | non-Latin | Regular | Gurmukhi |
| Hangangche | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| HeadlineA | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#HeadLineA' in font list |
| Hei | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| Helvetica | sans, book | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | System Font for Small Text |
| Helvetica CY | non-Latin, sans, book | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | Cyrillic; Face is condensed compared to Helvetica, Helvetica Neue |
| Helvetica Neue | sans, book | Condensed Bold, Condensed Black, Ultra-light, Ultra-light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Herculanum | sans, deco, upper case | Regular | |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std | non-Latin | W8 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic StdN | non-Latin | W8 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro | non-Latin | W4 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Maru Gothic ProN | non-Latin | W4 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hiragino Mincho Pro | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Mincho ProN | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hoefler Text | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Black, Black Italic, Ornaments | Re‐added in 10.3, but present in System 7.5 also |
| Inai Mathi | non-Latin | Regular | Tamil; added in 10.4; not depicted below |
| Impact | sans, title | Regular | Bundled with Windows |
| Jung Gothic | non-Latin | Medium | Korean |
| Kai | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| Keyboard | Regular | ||
| Krungthep | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; Latin characters identical to Chicago; not depicted below |
| KufiStandard GK | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic; not depicted below |
| Kuenstler Script | cursive | Regular, Black | |
| LastResort | Regular | Keyboard | |
| LiHei Pro | non-Latin | Medium | Traditional Chinese |
| LiSong Pro | non-Latin | Light | Traditional Chinese |
| Lucida Grande | sans, book | Regular, Bold | Main System Font in Mac OS X |
| Marker Felt | sans, deco | Thin, Wide | |
| Menlo | sans, mono | Regular, Bold, Italic | |
| Monaco | sans, mono | Regular | |
| Monaco CY | non-Latin, sans | Regular | Cyrillic |
| Mshtakan | non-Latin | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | Armenian; added in 10.3; not depicted below |
| Nadeem | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic |
| New Peninim | sans, book | Regular, Inclined, Bold, Bold Inclined | Hebrew |
| New York | serif, book | Regular | Classic only |
| NISC GB18030 | non-Latin | Regular | Chinese; bitmap only; not depicted below; named 'GB18030 Bitmap' in font lists |
| Optima | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Black | ||
| Osaka | non-Latin mono | Regular, Monospace | Japanese |
| Palatino | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Classic or iLife |
| Papyrus | sans, deco | Regular | |
| PC Myungjo | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#PCMyungjo' in font list |
| Pilgiche | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#PilGi' in font list |
| Plantagenet Cherokee | serif, book | Regular | Cherokee |
| Raanana | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Hebrew |
| Sand | sans, deco | Regular | |
| Sathu | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Seoul | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Shin Myungjo Neue | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Silom | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Skia | sans, title | Regular | |
| Snell Roundhand | cursive | Regular | |
| Song | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST FangSong | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST Heiti | non-Latin | Light, Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST Kaiti | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST Song | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| Symbol | symbol | Regular | |
| Tae Graphic | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Tahoma | sans, book | Light, Regular, Bold | Bundled with Windows |
| Taipei | non-Latin | Regular | Traditional Chinese; bitmap only; not depicted below |
| Techno | sans, title | Regular | Classic only |
| Textile | sans, deco | Regular | Classic (and iDVD) |
| Thonburi | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Times | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Times CY | non-Latin, serif | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Cyrillic; removed from 10.4 |
| Times New Roman | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Trebuchet MS | sans, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Verdana | sans, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Zapf Chancery | script | Medium Italic | Classic only |
| Zapf Dingbats | picto | Regular | |
| Zapfino | script, deco | Regular |
New fonts added with OS X 10.10 Yosemite[edit]
The following system fonts have been added with Yosemite:
- ITC Bodoni 72: Book, Italic, Bold (these three in separate fonts with lining and text figures), Small Caps, Ornaments (Sumner Stone)
- ITF Devanagari
- Kohinoor Devanagari (Satya Rajpurohit)
- Luminari (Philip Bouwsma)
- Phosphate: Inline and Solid (Steve Jackaman & Ashley Muir)
- Shree Devanagari 714 (Modular Infotech)
- SignPainter (House Industries)
- Skia: Light, Light Condensed, Light Extended, Condensed, Extended, Bold, Black, Black Condensed, Black Extended (Matthew Carter; system previously only included regular)
- Sukhumvit Set: Thin, Light, Text, Medium, SemiBold, Bold (Anuthin Wongsunkakon)
- Bitstream Symbols
- Trattatello (James Grieshaber)
New fonts added with OS X 10.11 El Capitan[edit]
At least the following system fonts have been added with El Capitan:
- PingFang SC / PingFang TC / PingFang HK, a new set of Chinese UI Fonts produced by DynaComware in lieu of deprecated STHeiti Family.
- San Francisco UI / Display / Text.
New fonts added with macOS 10.12 Sierra[edit]
At least the following system fonts have been added with Sierra:
- Toppan Bunkyu Mincho Pr6N Regular
- Toppan Bunkyu Midashi Minchoi StdN ExtraBold
- Toppan Bunkyu Gothic Pr6N Regular / Demibold
- Toppan Bunkyu Midashi Gothic StdN Extrabold
- Monotype LingWai Medium (SC / TC)
- Songti (SC / TC)
- Yu Kyokasho N (Medium / Bold) (Vertical Version / Horizontal Version)
- San Francisco Mono
New fonts added with macOS 10.13 High Sierra[edit]
High Sierra added several system fonts or additional weights of existing system fonts:
- Charter (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic)
- DIN (Alternate Bold, Condensed Bold)
- Hiragino Kaku Gothic StdN W8
- InaiMathi (Bold)
- Kai (Regular)
- Kaiti SC (Regular, Bold, Black)
- Myriad Arabic (Semibold)
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu
- Rockwell (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
- STIX Two Math
- STIX Two Text (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
macOS 10.14 Mojave[edit]
No new fonts were provided with Mojave.
Font appearances[edit]
- These images compare Roman fonts only, in most styles:
- The fonts in the following list were included as 'extras' with AppleWorks 6,[1] which was bundled with new iMacs until 2006.[2]
Hidden fonts[edit]
A number of fonts have also been provided with iMovie, iLife, iDVD and other Apple applications in hidden folders, for the sole use of these applications. The reason why these fonts are hidden is unknown, with licensing issues suggested as the cause. However, one may easily install them for use by all applications by copying them out of their Library directories and installing them as with any third-party font, although one should always check that the license for the fonts allows them to be used outside the given software.[3]
Notable hidden fonts on macOS include Bank Gothic, Bodoni, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Garamond, several cuts of Lucida and Monotype Twentieth Century.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^Elferdink, Jim & David Reynolds, AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual, p. 422
- ^Williams, Warren & Cathleen Merritt, AppleWorks Journal, March 2006, p. 7
- ^Tomalty, Fletcher. 'Hidden fonts on Mac OS X'. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
References[edit]
- Apple's font list for 10.3 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.4 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.5 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.6 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.7 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.8 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.9 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.12 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.13 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.14 (names only, no images)
More Fonts For Mac
- Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger (Appendix B contains representations of Latin fonts included with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger)
- Code Style's survey of Mac OS fonts (includes OS 8/9 users)
- Szántó Tibor: A betű (The type) (Hungarian; Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1982, ISBN963 05 0327 1), Chapter XVI.
External links[edit]
Best Free Fonts For Mac