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Alegra – Free Minimal Sans Font. This beautifully elegant and minimal font is completely free for you to use with your personal and commercial projects. It includes 12 different styles of fonts featuring more than 2700 glyphs. You can craft all kinds of titles and designs with this font. Osaka font - Free Japanese Font - Free Japanese Font. Osaka font is the default Japanese font for Mac OS, and now you can also download the font and use it on other operating system like Windows and Linux as well. We have 52 free Japanese Fonts to offer for direct downloading 1001 Fonts is your favorite site for free fonts since 2001. Mac OS X has native support for Type 1 and OpenType fonts, which can be installed just like other font type on OS X. However, fonts installed in OS X system locations are not available to “Classic” applications (see section below). Fonts installed in the OS X native environment can be accessed by (a) any user or (b) just by an individual user.
This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that shipped with language-specific updates from Apple (primarily Korean and Chinese fonts). For fonts shipped only with Mac OS X 10.5, please see Apple's documentation.
System fonts up to Mac OS X 10.7[edit]
| Family Name | Subtype | Styles Available | Target script and other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Bayan | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Arabic |
| American Typewriter | serif, book | Condensed Light, Condensed, Condensed Bold, Light, Regular, Bold | |
| Andalé Mono | sans-serif, mono, book | Regular, Bold | |
| Apple Casual | display | Regular | Hidden, see below |
| Apple Chancery | script | Regular | |
| Apple Garamond | serif, book | Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Hidden, see below |
| Apple Gothic | Regular | Korean | |
| Apple LiGothic | non-Latin | Medium | Traditional Chinese |
| Apple LiSung | non-Latin | Light | Traditional Chinese |
| Apple Myungjo | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Apple Symbols | picture | Regular | |
| AquaKana | Regular | Japanese, Not depicted below | |
| Arial | sans-serif, book | Condensed Light, Narrow, Narrow Italic, Narrow Bold, Narrow Bold Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Rounded Bold, Bold Italic, Black | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Arial Hebrew | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Hebrew |
| Ayuthaya | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Baghdad | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic |
| Baskerville | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Semi-bold, Semi-bold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Beijing | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese; bitmap only |
| BiauKai | non-Latin | Regular | Traditional Chinese; missing in Yosemite and El Capitan until Sierra. |
| Big Caslon | serif, book | Medium | |
| Browallia New | non-Latin | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Thai, Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| BrowalliaUPC | non-Latin | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Thai, Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Brush Script | script | Italic | |
| Candara | sans-serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Chalkboard | semi-bold | Regular, Bold | Bold added in 10.4; Bold not depicted below |
| Chalkduster | bold | Regular | added in 10.6; not depicted below |
| Charcoal | Regular | Classic only | |
| Charcoal CY | non-Latin | Regular | Cyrillic |
| Chicago | sans, book | Regular | Classic only, see Krungthep below |
| Cochin | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Comic Sans | casual | Regular, Bold | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Consolas | sans-serif, mono | Regular, Italic, Bold, Italic | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Cooper | extra-bold | Black | |
| Copperplate | serif, title, small caps | Light, Regular, Bold | |
| Corsiva Hebrew | non-Latin | Regular | Hebrew |
| Courier | serif mono, book | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | |
| Courier New | serif mono, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| DecoType Naskh | non-Latin | Regular | Naskh Arabic; not depicted below |
| Devanagari | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Devanagari |
| Didot | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold | |
| Euphemia UCAS | sans-serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold | Canadian Syllabics; not depicted below |
| Futura | sans-serif, book | Condensed Medium, Condensed Extra Bold, Medium, Medium Italic | |
| Gadget | sans-serif, title | Regular | Classic only |
| Geeza Pro | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Arabic |
| Geezah | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic |
| Geneva | sans-serif, book | Regular, Bold | |
| Geneva CY | non-Latin | Regular | Cyrillic |
| Georgia | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Windows |
| Gill Sans | sans-serif, book | Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Gujarati | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Gujarati |
| Gung Seoche | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#GungSeo' in font list |
| Gurmukhi | non-Latin | Regular | Gurmukhi |
| Hangangche | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| HeadlineA | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#HeadLineA' in font list |
| Hei | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| Helvetica | sans, book | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | System Font for Small Text |
| Helvetica CY | non-Latin, sans, book | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | Cyrillic; Face is condensed compared to Helvetica, Helvetica Neue |
| Helvetica Neue | sans, book | Condensed Bold, Condensed Black, Ultra-light, Ultra-light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Herculanum | display, deco, upper case | Regular | |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std | non-Latin | W8 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Kaku Gothic StdN | non-Latin | W8 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro | non-Latin | W4 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Maru Gothic ProN | non-Latin | W4 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hiragino Mincho Pro | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese |
| Hiragino Mincho ProN | non-Latin | W3, W6 | Japanese based on JIS X 0213 |
| Hoefler Text | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Black, Black Italic, Ornaments | Re‐added in 10.3, but present in System 7.5 also |
| Inai Mathi | non-Latin | Regular | Tamil; added in 10.4; not depicted below |
| Impact | sans, title | Regular | Bundled with Compacting Fonts |
| Jung Gothic | non-Latin | Medium | Korean |
| Kai | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| Keyboard | Regular | ||
| Krungthep | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; Latin characters identical to Chicago; not depicted below |
| KufiStandard GK | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic; not depicted below |
| Kuenstler Script | script | Regular, Black | |
| LastResort | Regular | Keyboard | |
| LiHei Pro | non-Latin | Medium | Traditional Chinese |
| LiSong Pro | non-Latin | Light | Traditional Chinese |
| Lucida Sans | sans, book | Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic | Included from MacOS |
| Marker Felt | casual | Thin, Wide | |
| Menlo | sans-serif, mono | Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic | |
| Monaco | sans-serif, mono | Regular | |
| Monaco CY | non-Latin | Regular | Cyrillic |
| Mshtakan | non-Latin | Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique | Armenian; added in 10.3; not depicted below |
| Nadeem | non-Latin | Regular | Arabic |
| New Peninim | sans-serif, book | Regular, Inclined, Bold, Bold Inclined | Hebrew |
| New York | serif, book | Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic | Classic only |
| NISC GB18030 | non-Latin | Regular | Chinese; bitmap only; not depicted below; named 'GB18030 Bitmap' in font lists |
| Optima | sans-serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Black | |
| Osaka | non-Latin mono | Regular, Monospace | Japanese |
| Palatino | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Classic or iLife |
| Papyrus | casual, normal | Regular, Condensed | |
| PC Myungjo | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#PCMyungjo' in font list |
| Pilgiche | non-Latin | Regular | Korean, named '#PilGi' in font list |
| Plantagenet Cherokee | serif, book | Regular | Cherokee |
| Raanana | non-Latin | Regular, Bold | Hebrew |
| Sand | bold italic | Regular | Classic only |
| Sathu | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Seoul | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Shin Myungjo Neue | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Silom | non-Latin | Regular | Thai; not depicted below |
| Skia | sans-serif, book | Light, Light Condensed, Light Extended, Regular, Condensed, Extended, Bold, Black, Black Condensed, Black Extended | |
| Snell Roundhand | script | Regular | |
| ST FangSong | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST FangSong 2 | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST Heiti | non-Latin | Light, Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST Kaiti | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| ST Song | non-Latin | Regular | Simplified Chinese |
| Symbol | symbol | Regular | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Tae Graphic | non-Latin | Regular | Korean |
| Tahoma | sans, book | Light, Regular, Bold | Bundled with Windows |
| Taipei | non-Latin | Regular | Traditional Chinese; bitmap only; not depicted below |
| Techno | sans, title | Regular | Classic only |
| Textile | bold italic | Regular | Classic (and iDVD) |
| Thonburi | non-Latin | Regular | Suspended by Geneva |
| Times | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | |
| Times CY | non-Latin, serif | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Cyrillic; removed from 10.4 |
| Times New Roman | serif, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Trebuchet MS | sans, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Verdana | sans, book | Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic | Bundled with Microsoft Windows |
| Zapf Chancery | script | Medium Italic | Classic only |
| Zapf Dingbats | picture | Regular | |
| Zapfino | script, deco | Regular |
New fonts added with OS X 10.10 Yosemite[edit]
The following system fonts have been added with Yosemite:
- ITC Bodoni 72: Book, Italic, Bold (these three in separate fonts with lining and text figures), Small Caps, Ornaments (Sumner Stone)
- ITF Devanagari
- Kohinoor Devanagari (Satya Rajpurohit)
- Luminari (Philip Bouwsma)
- Phosphate: Inline and Solid (Steve Jackaman & Ashley Muir)
- Shree Devanagari 714 (Modular Infotech)
- SignPainter (House Industries)
- Skia: Light, Light Condensed, Light Extended, Condensed, Extended, Bold, Black, Black Condensed, Black Extended (Matthew Carter; system previously only included regular)
- Sukhumvit Set: Thin, Light, Text, Medium, SemiBold, Bold (Anuthin Wongsunkakon; previously used as a system font for iOS 7.0[1])
- Bitstream Symbols
- Trattatello (James Grieshaber)
New fonts added with OS X 10.11 El Capitan[edit]
At least the following system fonts have been added with El Capitan:
- PingFang SC / PingFang TC / PingFang HK, a new set of Chinese UI Fonts produced by DynaComware in lieu of deprecated STHeiti Family.
- San Francisco UI / Display / Text.
New fonts added with macOS 10.12 Sierra[edit]
At least the following system fonts have been added with Sierra:
- Toppan Bunkyu Mincho Pr6N Regular
- Toppan Bunkyu Midashi Mincho StdN ExtraBold
- Toppan Bunkyu Gothic Pr6N Regular / Demibold
- Toppan Bunkyu Midashi Gothic StdN Extrabold
- Monotype LingWai Medium (SC / TC)
- Songti (SC / TC)
- Yu Kyokasho N (Medium / Bold) (Vertical Version / Horizontal Version)
- San Francisco Mono
New fonts added with macOS 10.13 High Sierra[edit]
High Sierra added several system fonts or additional weights of existing system fonts:
- Charter (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic)
- DIN (Alternate Bold, Condensed Bold)
- Hiragino Kaku Gothic StdN W8
- InaiMathi (Bold)
- Kai (Regular)
- Kaiti SC (Regular, Bold, Black)
- Myriad Arabic (Semibold)
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu
- Rockwell (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
- STIX Two Math
- STIX Two Text (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
macOS 10.14 Mojave[edit]
No new fonts were provided with Mojave.
Font appearances[edit]
- These images compare Roman fonts only, in most styles:
- The fonts in the following list were included as 'extras' with AppleWorks 6,[2] which was bundled with new iMacs until 2006.[3]
Hidden fonts[edit]
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A number of fonts have also been provided with iMovie, iLife, iDVD and other Apple applications in hidden folders, for the sole use of these applications. The reason why these fonts are hidden is unknown, with licensing issues suggested as the cause. However, one may easily install them for use by all applications by copying them out of their Library directories and installing them as with any third-party font, although one should always check that the license for the fonts allows them to be used outside the given software.[4]
Notable hidden fonts on macOS include Bank Gothic, Bodoni, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Garamond, several cuts of Lucida and Monotype Twentieth Century.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^Sakawee, Saiyai (December 16, 2013). 'Apple could be bringing back the old Thai font in iOS 7.1 update'. www.techinasia.com. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^Elferdink, Jim & David Reynolds, AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual, p. 422
- ^Williams, Warren & Cathleen Merritt, AppleWorks Journal, March 2006, p. 7
- ^Tomalty, Fletcher. 'Hidden fonts on Mac OS X'. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
References[edit]
- Apple's font list for 10.3 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.4 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.5 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.6 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.7 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.8 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.9 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.12 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.13 (names only, no images)
- Apple's font list for 10.14 (names only, no images)
- Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger (Appendix B contains representations of Latin fonts included with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger)
- Code Style's survey of Mac OS fonts (includes OS 8/9 users)
- Szántó Tibor: A betű (The type) (Hungarian; Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1982, ISBN963 05 0327 1), Chapter XVI.
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External links[edit]
Recommended Fonts
The SALRC recommends the following fonts for Urdu language pedagogy and Internet applications:
Note: Baluchi, Brahui, Kashmiri, Lahnda, Panjabi Shahmukhi make use of additional letters not found in Urdu script; fonts that support these languages have been specifically noted below in the 'Download/Install' column.
[Click on font names or samples for specific information and text samples for each font.]
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Nafees Naskh (Nafees Naskh.ttf)
Free download from the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP).
Note: Also supports Panjabi Shahmukhi.
Nafees Nastaleeq (Nafees Nastaleeq.ttf)
Free download from the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP).
Nafees Pakistani Naskh (Nafees_Pakistani_Naskh.ttf)
Free download from the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP).
Note: Also supports Balochi, Pashto, Punjabi Shahmukhi, and Sindhi.
Nafees Web Naskh (NafeesWeb.ttf)
Free download from the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP).
Tahoma (tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf)
Commercial font supplied with Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP.
Note: Also supports Balochi, Brahui, Kashmiri, Lahnda, Panjabi Shahmukhi, Pashto, and Sindhi.
Input Schemes and Keyboard Layouts
For typing in Urdu on Windows platforms, the SALRC recommends the following options:
- Windows XP/Vista Keyboard Layout: Microsoft Windows XP includes keyboard layouts for typing with Urdu Unicode fonts through the installation of its optional multilingual support. Follow the instructions about 'Enabling South Asian Language Support' and 'Activating Keyboard Layouts' on the 'How to Install Fonts and Layouts' page (in the left navigation bar). The keyboard may be viewed with the On-screen Keyboard Viewer (Start > Program Files > Utilities > Accessibility > On Screen Keyboard). As the default Urdu keyboard is not phonetic, many users may prefer to install a phonetic one (see below).
- The Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing provides a Urdu Phonetic Keyboard for Windows . This keyboard is phonetic and like the InPage keyboard. Follow the instructions above about how to enable South Asian language support before installing this keyboard.
- OpenOffice.org: A free, open-source office suite project that is Unicode-savvy, OpenType enabled, and able to run on Linux/Sparc, Mac OS X (with X11), and all modern Windows platforms, including Windows 95.
Rendering issues: Mac vs. PC
Mac Font Download
The fonts recommended on this page have been tested for functionality on PCs running Windows XP. They are unsuitable for use with Macintosh computers, because they make use of OpenType technology, developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe, for displaying vowel signs (matras) and ligatures appropriately. While OS X also recognizes OpenType layout tables, it uses a different rendering engine (ATSUI), and these fonts are written for Microsoft's engine (called Uniscribe).
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Perso-Arabic scripts are supported from OS X (10.3.x), with the optional installation of additional language support. Using the Mac's own Arabic Unicode fonts, the user will be able to view Urdu-encoded websites using Safari and to produce Unicode-compliant documents using TextEdit. However, support is limited to applications like TextEdit and Safari. Kamal Abdali's Urdu on the Mac webpage provides instructions on how to enable Urdu and also provides a phonetic keyboard.
These fonts will probably work on most Linux systems, either now or in the future.
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Additional Resources and Credits
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The content and design of this page rely largely on Alan Wood's Unicode Fonts and WAZU JAPAN's Urdu Unicode Fonts; these sites are excellent and up-to-date resources to find fonts, text editors, browsers, and other Unicode resources. The statistics and other font details appearing on this page have been reproduced with their permission. Visit Penn State's Urdu Computing Informationpages for additional Unicode support. Further discussion of Urdu language processing issues may be found at the CRULP or within the lively and knowledgable Urdu on-line community of weblogs, forums, and email lists; e.g., UrduWiki, Urdu Planet, Urdu Blogs. Sean Pue (Columbia University) and Manan Ahmed (University of Chicago) have provided invaluable assistance and guidance in the creation of this page.
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