Install fonts

Aug 14, 2020.

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.

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.

Welcome to FontAgent, the World’s Smartest Font Manager.™ Built atop the planet’s most robust viewing, searching, activation and metadata engines, the latest FontAgent for Mac adds macOS Catalina and Mojave support, Dark Mode, sharable tags, nested sets, faster font rendering and activation, smarter searching and set management, Monotype and Adobe subscription font support, auto-activation in Adobe Creative Cloud, QuarkXPress and Affinity applications, and more.

FontAgent 9.5 Highlights

Built atop the planet’s most robust font display, search, activation and metadata engines, the latest edition of FontAgent adds a flood of functionality to help you organize, categorize and visualize your fonts using FontAgent’s modern Mac interface that features crisp previews, simple controls and powerful font management. Activate, deactivate, search, change colors, customize text and resize UI panes in seconds. Here are some highlights:

• Sharable tags for categorizing and organizing your fonts
• macOS Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra and Sierra compatibility
• Support for macOS Dark Mode
• All-new, optimized font-rendering engine for faster previews
• Tight integration with Monotype SkyFonts and Adobe Fonts
• Better font cache auto-clearing
• Faster syncing, especially for large font collections

• Speedier, 2x faster font activation
• Auto-activation in Adobe CC 2020 (InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, After Effects, InCopy); Affinity (Photo, Designer, Publisher), QuarkXPress 2019 and other leading applications
• Expanded, speedy searching of font tags and comments
• Improved managing and syncing of user-entered tags
• Group-by-tag display in the Table View

Build a High-Integrity Font Catalog

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Just drag fonts into FontAgent to add them to your font catalog. FontAgent keeps a full history of your imports and uses Insider’s FontDNA™ technology to verify their integrity, fingerprint them and detect duplicates.

Auto-Activation in More Applications

Auto-activate fonts (now in a lot more applications) as you open documents in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and InCopy; Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher; QuarkXpress and other popular Mac apps.

New Sharable and Searchable Tags

Assign keyword tags to fonts and sets to classify them by project, appearance, job numbers, clients… however you want. Create tag-based Smart Sets to preview, compare and activate associated fonts easily. And when you share your fonts with other FontAgent Sync or Server users, you share their tags as well — no extra steps required.

Nested Sets

Back by popular demand, FontAgent supports nested sets so you can organize fonts hierarchically by client, project, foundry or style. Nested sets are sharable, so when you share a parent set with other FontAgent Sync and Server users, FontAgent shares the set definitions as well as the fonts in the parent and all its child subsets.

Tight Monotype and Adobe Cloud Integration

Fonts activated in Monotype SkyFonts and Adobe Fonts appear automatically in FontAgent and work just like all your other fonts. You can even download free Google Fonts from SkyFonts. A goldmine of online fonts is at your fingertips… and in your workflow.

Freeform Comments

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Enter freeform comments for your fonts and sets to describe the projects, clients, colors, type settings or treatments that make your projects shine. Later, search your comments to find the fonts you need for any of your projects, and use them consistently.

Lightning-Fast Search

Search fonts by name, style, foundry, designer, tags, comments, ratings, and other metadata. Perform complex searches and save their results as Smart Sets that auto-update as you add fonts to your collection.

More Metadata Drives Smarter Searches

Select a font or set and view more property metadata than ever—font formats, styles, metrics, tags, filenames, locations, ratings and comments—everything you need to know about your fonts. Information is power.

FontAgent is compatible with all your favorite creative applications

More Ways to Preview Fonts (faster, too)

Preview fonts in waterfalls, planks, slide shows, paragraphs and compare lists. Drag glyphs into your documents. Try the Tile View to see font thumbnails or to compare all the styles in a font family.

Explore Using the Table View

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FontAgent’s Table View lets you quickly explore and compare font metadata in a spreadsheet that includes font previews. Click to sort, activate, apply star ratings, or group by family or foundry. It’s that powerful and that simple.

Print and Export Your Fonts

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Create hardcopy and PDF font samples for sharing with clients and co-workers. Produce waterfalls, paragraphs, logotype, character sets—whatever you want. Export fonts into organized folder hierarchies for archiving or sending to service bureaus.

Flexible Licensing Choices

Ready to revolutionize your creative workflow? Try the new FontAgent for 30 days. When you’re ready to purchase, choose between a traditional stand-alone license, or a cost-effective Sync subscription that enables cloud-based font sharing across users and computers—no server required.
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FontAgent 9.5 runs on Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra (macOS 10.13 or later)