Whether you are a Windows or Mac user, and you already use your computer for professional or leisure purposes, you will well know that there are countless fonts pre-installed on the system operational. Surely it has occurred to you that you are writing any document and doubting which type of font is more formal, or it has even crossed your mind to change the font of the operating system completely, and you have not known which one to choose.
Well, we are going to make it more difficult for you, since we are going to explain how to install new fonts on your Mac. It is not a complicated, long or tedious process, so be calm, because when you finish reading this tutorial you will be able to choose between hundreds and hundreds of fonts to use each time. Can you come with us?
Download the fonts to your Mac
In the first case, mention that the process is practically the same regardless of the version of MacOS that you use. The first thing to keep in mind is, of course, knowing what font we want to install on our system. It is clear that, in the vast majority of cases, it will be impossible for us to know what the font we are looking for is called, and also, given the infinity of existing fonts, it will be very difficult for us to know exactly which one we are looking for.
So in addition to choosing the source, we will have to know where to look for it. One of the most extensive web pages in terms of fonts is DafontWhere we can find more than 30.000 different fonts. We can spend hours and hours searching and searching the length and breadth of the internet, that the letter we are looking for, we will almost certainly find it on this website.
Once we have accessed the web, and we have the great possibility of filter the available sources by topics, authors, news, or the best rated by users. Or we can make use of the search engine, located in the upper right corner, if we know the name of the source in question. After finding the source we want, we will click on your name and we can see a preview of the same before proceeding to download. This is very useful, since we can see each character before downloading the complete font.
Once the characters have been displayed, both uppercase and lowercase and numbers, and be clear about the font we want to obtain, we will click on the download buttonr, located on the right side of the page. We will download a compressed file in .zip format where we can find the complete font, which usually occupies less than 1Mb, in addition to the typical text file with the font license, if you have it. Once downloaded, let's see how to install it.
Install the font on your Mac
With the font already downloaded to our computer, the first step to take will be copy the downloaded file to another folder where we have it closer to hand and, once there, unzip it by double clicking on it. At this time we will find, in addition to the .otf file, corresponding to the full text source, a Text file with information about it, such as the installation instructions or the license agreement.
With the archive unzipped, the only remaining step is to double click on the font file icon itself (with .otf extension), and then a window will open where we can preview said source on our computer. If we have downloaded the font correctly and the result on the screen is what we expect, all that remains is press the button «Install font» located in the lower right corner of the window.
Once installed, it will open in another window the Mac typeface catalog automatically. This is just the set of fonts installed on our Mac, where we can see all the fonts, both those that the system integrates and those installed by the user. From here we can manage them, choosing which ones we want to keep and which ones we want to eliminate, in case we want to get rid of any. We can also disable them to our liking, leaving the font installed but not accessible by any program.
As you have seen, it is a easy, simple and fast process, with which we can easily personalize all the documents that we make or modify on our Mac, giving them our personal touch. Keep in mind that, if we share a document with a font downloaded by us, the recipient will have to have the same font installed on their computer to be able to view and modify any part of the text, so we must inform you of what font we have used. What are you waiting for to find your ideal fonts for every occasion?