Questions tagged [font]
A font (more accurately a typeface) is the graphic representation of characters and the software that manages or configures writing systems.
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Installing the font from Windows [closed]
All,
Is it possible to install the font from Windows on OSX and then use it in my program?
TIA!!
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List available serif fonts
I have been trying to find a way to locate suitable fonts for a book project. For the purposes of this question, I want to find all the fonts I have available on my Mac which
are serif fonts, and
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Where does macOS store private SF Symbols? Such as icons on the Control Center?
Where does macOS store it's icons inside Control Center?
For example the Control Center icon itself? Or the new Stage Manager? Or the Screen Mirroring?
I know for a fact they're not raster icons ...
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IpadOs 16.1.1 : Ipad 6th gen lock screen clock font personalization [duplicate]
I was wondering if it would be possible to change the clock font on the lock screen of my ipad (6th gen). As I saw it was possible on my iPhone, I did not see the options which allowed me to ...
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Detect substituted glyphs
Here is how U+261E (manicule) and U+00B6 (pilcrow) are displayed in Pages:
As you can see, all the U+261E and U+00B6 glyphs looks pretty the same across Menlo, Monaco and Courier New (with the ...
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Font size in Apple Numbers, Excel and LibreOffice Calc
See the screenshot below. The same font & size with zoom level 100% has different visual sizes in these three macOS spreadsheet apps:
Apple Numbers v12.2 (left)
Microsoft Excel for Mac v16.69.1 (...
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The font (Arial) is not applied to the body of my mail when using Apple Mail on MacOS
I work with colleagues who use Windows and I have noticed that my font is not applied to the text when I select Arial. This results in the text being displayed in Times New Roman (the default font on ...
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How can I increase the font size for all programs without changing the resolution on OS X El Capitan?
I wonder how I can increase the font size for all programs without changing the resolution on OS X El Capitan. I don't want to change the resolution:
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Use different font alternative stylistic set of an open type font on Mac
I currently know the feature code. Vs Code supports it in settings.json. I wonder if I could change the installed font to that stylistic set. For example, if I use customized font in Mac terminal, I ...
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Is there a way to mimic handwriting in MS Word?
I need to add some handwritten text into the text typed in MS Word. I've decided to use a handwriting font but the "handwritten" text isn't looking like really handwritten.
I guess, adding a ...
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Apple Display/UI Scaling
I am a new owner of a M1 MacBook Pro and a long time Windows user and I have a problem with how the text is displayed on my screen.
The Mac's screen itself looks fine, but when I connected it to my ...
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What is CR8supplement in my Font Book? Should I delete it?
I’m currently using my MacBook Pro with macOS Ventura installed, and a font file is bugging me. An installed font called CR8supplement. The font is sitting in my Font Book and, to be honest, I don’t ...
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iOS 16 Lock screen: change clock font without creating a new background
iOS 16 allows you to change clock font and it automatically changed all current fonts to a much thicker font. you cannot change this without creating a "new lock screen" if you had one ...
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How do I change iPad lock screen font
I update my iPad (gen 8) to the newest iPad operating system today (iPadOS 16.1) and noticed that Apple has changed the default lock screen font used for the time. I’m not a big fan of the new font is ...
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How to support Telugu/Tamil characters in VS Code on macOS
I want to paste Telugu/Tamil text from a PDF file to a VS Code file with a .js extension, but it just shows blocks.
Other fonts, like Hindi or Arabic are working fine: when I paste them, it is showing ...
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Microsoft Powerpoint Greek text encoding issue
I have a really weird issue in Microsoft Powerpoint for Mac whereas I post one and same Greek textsample (in UTF-8 Unicode) into two text boxes and it has font issues in one text box and not the other....
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iTerm2 custom font location
I am unable to add a custom font to iTerm2. When I install the font via brew install font-fira-code, it is installed in /Users/my_user_name/Library/Fonts. However, iTerm2 shows the system fonts only, ...
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How to format header in Excel worksheet using AppleScript
Here is the VBA code for customizing the font, font size, and stylizing the headers and footers in an Excel spreadsheet:
'With sht.PageSetup
'.CenterHeader = "&R&""...
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Using system_profiler with English output on German macOS
For a macOS software that works with fonts on the bash shell I need information about the installed fonts.
To get the font information I use
system_profiler SPFontsDataType
This works fine on an ...
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How do I make FontBook display a preview of the fonts which show up as a boxed question marks?
In FontBook, a lot of my installed fonts display as a boxed question mark.
How do I resolve this issue?
macOS High Sierra
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Question mark box instead of my Mac name in Terminal
I'm normally using iTerm2, but lately I wanted to restore its settings because of a style that I didn't like, so what I did, was run the command which I've found in Re-setting iTerm on MacOS X
rm ~/...
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Change system-wide default font for a particular language
The default macOS font for Persian/Arabic is quite bad (IMO). Is it possible to change the system-wide default font for particular languages? I guess I'm looking for the equivalent of fontconfig rules ...
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Can you install fonts by symlinking them into ~/Library/Fonts?
You can install fonts by copying them them to ~/Library/Fonts but macOS fails to follow them when they are symbolic links. Is there a way to make this work with symlinks?
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How to fix font size in Notes app when pasting from clipboard?
hope I can find some help. I'm a total newbie at AppleScript.
I have put together a script that will copy the text I have highlighted on Safari, and paste it into a specific Note with just a keyboard ...
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Why are the font-sizes on macOS so small?
For some reason, the font-sizes on macOS appear very small.
For example, if I use Apple's own Pages and set the zoom to 100%, I would expect it to represent the page accurately on my display. However, ...
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I need to add Hebrew and Greek fonts on my Mac air 12.5 Monterey for seminary class
Professor requested that both Greek and Hebrew fonts be loaded to my Mac so I could read them when they pop up in a paper. Cannot seem to find a method that works. Is adding a font the same as ...
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How can I install the Cantarell font in MacOS Monterey (12.5)?
I am trying to install the Cantarell font Software from GNU. I am running a Macbook Air M1 with Monterey 12.5.
They provide instructions:
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate # Unixoids...
venv/...
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Microsoft Word Inter font only showing regular and bold
I'm trying to use the Inter font in Microsoft Word but all of the different weights just show up and display as 'Regular'. I use this same font elsewhere and it works on my system, it's just an issue ...
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Cannot install Powerline fonts
I want to use oh-my-zsh with agnoster theme. So that I've tried to install the required fonts:
powerline fonts https://github.com/powerline/fonts. For this one I needed not just run ./install.sh but ...
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Automator action to paste a word in all fonts
How would I write an Automator action or Applescript to paste or type a word in every single font? The screenshot is what I have so far. The hitch I'm running into is in the "make a selection ...
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How to fix blurry fonts on external monitor (M1 Mac Mini)
I previously had a HP U28 28" 4k monitor hooked up to it which worked fine. Now I've changed to a LG 32GN600-B 31.5" 2k 165Hz screen due to me also gaming on it with my Windows machine and ...
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Resolve font duplicates [duplicate]
I'm installing this font on my mac: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font
The installation is pretty straightforward: it's enough to go to the app "Font Book", click "Add font" and ...
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Is there a way to deactivate fonts via terminal or similar?
I have the problem that I cannot activate a font in the Typeface app because the font was apparently activated before. It stops with an error about duplicate fonts, which seems legit since I can see ...
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Is there an alternative for fontconfig?
I have been a Linux user for years and now I might switch to Apple.
I use fontconfig for font configuration including default font replacement and setting stylistic sets for OpenType fonts.
I have ...
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Search for files that are NOT a specific kind on my Mac
I am trying to work out which fonts I have on my machine that are Type 1 Postscript fonts so I can avoid problems when Adobe stops supporting them next year. I have used kind:”type 1 outline font” ...
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Missing Courier font on Terminal macOS Monterey
I recently got a new laptop, opened up Terminal and noticed that the Courier font is missing entirely!
Is there a way to get this font installed into Terminal?
Thanks!
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Sublime Text Multilingual Unicode Rendering
I've been using Sublime Text for years and noticed that the rendering of Devanagari unicode characters doesn't work. Has anyone figured a way to make this work? I haven't noticed any problem rendering ...
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Keep font on computer
The font Kaiti SC keeps uninstalling itself from my macbook and I need to re-download it every few days.
How can I stop it from being removed? I would like to always have this font available.
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How to make DuckDuckGo.com use a font with spaces in its name in Safari?
DuckDuckGo.com makes it easy to define your own display font.
It works well, except for fonts with a space in their name, like "IBM Plex Sans".
I tried "quotes", escaped%...
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Synching fonts between two macbook pros
Twice I've tried to address this problem with Apple Support, but they really did not offer much help.
I followed the script below which I got from here which is where you add a folder of your fonts ...
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What does Command + ("Bigger") actually alter in OS X Terminal?
At first glance issuing Command+ (View -> Bigger) in OS X Terminal simply increases the font size, and increases the window size while keeping the number of rows/columns the same. However, I can't ...
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Setting font colour of outgoing emails in Mac Mail
It is not possible to set a default colour, other than black, for outgoing email messages in Mac Mail (MacOS). Within Mail there are preferences for font and font size, but changing default colour is ...
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Is there a way to modify the glyphs inside of Special Characters & Emoji?
Okay, so like, I'm aware the Character Viewer (⌘ + ⌃ + space) is displaying a system index of the full supported Unicode set of chars.
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My question is, is there a way I can take a glyph I've created ...
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Monospace System Font
Is it possible at all to change my system font (Big Sur) so that file names of the same length are actually the same length regardless of their text content?
I think what I want is a monospaced font, ...
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Keynote slide editing, Plus-sign on text box, how to AUTOMATICALLY Resize?, and does it have limits?
I already know that, when editing a text box, if a plus sign (+) appears in the bottom center, then it's warning you that there's more text that you're not seeing, that's fine. And yes, I know how to ...
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How to determine which font is being used to render a specific character in Terminal
Terminal is rendering 0x209A (a subscript "p") in a nice way when I use cat to look a file that contains that character. Terminal has been configured to use Inconsolata as its default font, ...
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Request for list of fonts folder contents on Monterey
I was wondering if anyone could run a list of fonts on Monterey, similar to my question 5 years ago. Curious about changes to system fonts but don't want to install Monterey just yet. Command below:
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After updating to Monterey, Firefox fonts are broken
I've just updated my mac to Monterey and after that I found out that font is just different that it used to be before the update - the tab title is quite small and fonts on websites are both different ...
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Apple Pages.app ruining font display, any ideas?
This truly makes no sense to me. As a graphic designer I've dealt with all sorts of RIP problems in the 90s and had issues with bad fonts in ttf, postscript, and opentype, and any number of other ...
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WhatsApp application font
I don't know if I'm asking my Q in the right place.
But, I recently installed a bunch of fonts on my Mac (v 11.6) and the font of my WhatsApp application (installed from App Store) changed and it's ...
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