Note that this first part of Section 1 covers only fonts required in the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. The fonts listed should always be active on your Macintosh for OS X and should not be removed. These lists also include the fonts most needed for the web, iLife and iWork. This section examines each of the various Mac OS releases (Panther 10.3 through High Sierra 10.13) and provides the recommended minimum list of the fonts to be stored in the System folder for that particular release of the operating system in order for it and most third party applications to run properly. I use them interchangeably throughout this article. The following words: program, application or app all have the same meaning. Which, if you start by double clicking the icon of the boot drive on the desktop, the path can also be presented as /Users/ your_user_account /Library/Fonts/.
So in most cases, the path to the Fonts folder in your home user account would be ~/Library/Fonts/. ~/ The tilde-forward slash pair is always your home directory (folder), i.e., the home folder of the current user login session. The beginning forward slash (as in the example to the Terminal application) of a file specification is always the root level of your boot volume. This is known as a hierarchical file specification in geek terminology, but it's called a canonical filename for short.
For example, here is the file specification for the Terminal application:
I can't tell you exactly what the path to your home account looks like (since I don't know your short user name), so here are some handy notes of reference.Ī file specification is the entire path from the root of the volume it resides on to the end of the file name.
Change font on mac os x how to#
This should help novice computer users and those unfamiliar with standard notation to learn how to navigate to the folders mentioned throughout this article. By 'notation' I am referring to the path name. Notice: Before you do any mods, backup your original font, so you can replace it back if you ever want.I first want to mention the notation of file locations. MacThemes Forum / Font Porting Request Thread (includes video)
Change font on mac os x mods#
Here's a screencast of my desktop with that same font:Īnd here's the tutorial from where I figured how to hack this (read it before you do any font mods yourself): Here's the link to new modified font, if you want to use that one. I provided the aliases to the folders where the fonts should be replaced in the file bellow.
Change font on mac os x free#
I used free font called Sansation, replaced all the symbols from Sansation to LucidaGrande in FontLab Studio, made a new dfont using Generate Suitcase option, named it LucidaGrande.dfont and replaced the existing one in system folders. The best is to do mods on a copy of LucidaGrande.dfont, and just copy/paste new symbols in the same slots as in LG. LucidaGrande is sytem font on OS X and need to be replaced with modified font with the same name (renamed) in order to work. The principle is to generate/modify a font with all same settings as LucidaGrande dfont (data fork font, exclusive to os x 10.5) using FontLab Studio. I used a tutorial on Hybrid/Modification forum that explains how, but they encountered some errors which I managed to fix. I finally managed to modify system font on my MBP os x 10.5.8.