Mac Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟macOS Operating System

∟Add Text Fonts on macOS

This section provides a list of commonly used keyboard and mouse click shortcuts on macOS.

Sometimes you may want to add a new text font your macOS. You can follow what I did to install the "Dancing Script" font family by Google.

1. Go to Google font Website at https://fonts.google.com.

2. Scroll down and click "Dancing Script" from the font list. The "Dancing Script" Web page shows up.

3. Click the "Download family" link on the top right corner of the page.

4. Save the download file to ~/Downloads/Dancing_Script.zip.

5. Unzip ~/Downloads/Dancing_Script.zip. A list of font files shows up: 

herong$ tree
  |-- DancingScript-VariableFont_wght.ttf
  |-- OFL.txt
  |-- README.txt
  |-- static
      |-- DancingScript-Bold.ttf
      |-- DancingScript-Medium.ttf
      |-- DancingScript-Regular.ttf
      |-- DancingScript-SemiBold.ttf

6. Run "/Applications/Font Book" and use "Files > Add Fonts" to open font file static/DancingScript-Regular.ttf.

The new font is added to the system and available to all applications.

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 About This Book

 Macintosh OS (Operating System) History

►macOS Operating System

 macOS System Info, Version and Upgrade

 Installed Applications on macOS

 Add New Users on macOS

 Add Printer on macOS

►Add Text Fonts on macOS

 Change System Language Preference on macOS

 Keyboard and Mouse Click Shortcuts on macOS

 macOS File Systems

 macOS Network Connections

 System and Application Processes

 Keychain Access - Password Manager

 Keychain Access - Certificate Manager

 Productivity Tools on macOS

 Programming Tools on macOS

 Apache Web Server on macOS

 Develop and Run Java Applications

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