I know how do install new fonts using Font Book.
Is there also a way to install fonts from the terminal, using some smart shell command?
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Sign up to join this communityYou can simply copy them into /Library/Fonts
(for system wide use) or ~/Library/Fonts
(for use by current user).
~/Library/Fonts
works for me in 14.1 (currently in beta) as it always has.
Oct 24 at 15:44
~/Library/Fonts
does not show up in fonts selection anywhere, nor in the "Font Book" app. Using macOS 13.6 (Ventura). Any steps to refresh or make them visible (preferably via Terminal, of course)?
Oct 26 at 10:54
Install fonts with the following terminal command (replace BRLNSR
with your font):
cd ~/Library/Fonts && {
curl -O 'https://github.com/FrankHassanabad/ResumeBuilder/blob/master/fonts/src/main/resources/frankhassanabad/com/github/windowsfonts/BRLNSR.TTF'
cd -; }
This code does the following:
cd
into the fonts directorycurl
downloads the fontThis relies on the very nice fonts github repo from Frank Hassanabad with a bunch of fonts stored - but you could change the curl url to wherever the font you want is located online.
The clever way the cd
into a directory, download and pop out again came from user Atle's answer here.
By manually copying to a fonts folder used to be the only way to install fonts before Font Book was introduced. (barring 3rd party sw)
Add this to your startup file (e.g. ~/.zshrc):
alias fontbook="open -b com.apple.FontBook"
Then, in a new Terminal, you can execute:
fontbook *.otf