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How do I install College fonts on macOS?

How do I install College fonts on macOS?

The College brand guidelines recommend using the Satoshi font for College marketing and communication materials. Most staff and faculty should already have these fonts installed via our management tools. If you have a BYO or unmanaged macOS device, follow these instructions to download and install Satoshi on your computer.

Instructions

  1. Download the font family from the font owner - https://www.fontshare.com/fonts/satoshi

Downloading closed source fonts from a third party website is generally illegal. Doing so may expose the College to legal liability and your computer to malware. Only download fonts from trusted sources and always adhere to the license requirements.

Satoshi is made and licensed by the Indian Type Foundry and can be legally downloaded from their Fontshare™ service.

  1. Navigate to the Fonts → OTF folder in the downloaded font, select all 10 .otf files and then open them:

    Select all 10 OTF files from the downloaded font family

    1. Select all by clicking the first and shift-clicking the last, choosing Edit menu → Select All or by pressing the ⌘ A keyboard shortcut.

    2. Open them by double-clicking one, choosing File menu → Open or pressing ⌘ O (O for Oscar) on your keyboard

  2. Install all 10 fonts at once by clicking the Install button on the font preview window

    Click “Install” to install all the fonts you are previewing (all 10 if you followed the above instructions)

Additional Help

Read on for some additional questions we think you might have. If you can’t find an answer to your question here you can contact the IT help desk.

Whilst your computer can automatically convert a single “regular” font to bold or italic, font variants are specially designed to look good at different weights and in different styles. Instead of the computer having to guess what the italic version should look like, the designer has provided versions that are carefully shaped and spaced for different styles, ensuring your text looks polished, readable, and balanced.

If the font is installed it should be available in any good Mac app when you choose a font. You can double-check by opening the Font Book application and searching for it by name.

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The Font Book application shows all fonts available in your system

You can also try to install the font again. If it’s already installed, the Font Preview window will warn you and suggest you skip installation:

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It’s safe to try and install the font a second time. Font Book will warn you of the duplicates and suggest you skip installation.

To remove a font, open the Font Book application and search for it by name.

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The Font Book application shows all fonts available in your system

Once you find it, right-click on the font to either deactivate it or remove it:

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  • Deactivate keeps the files on your system but removes it from the Font menu. This is good for fonts you don’t want to fully delete but also don’t want them cluttering up your font menu (e.g. if you only use it once a year for a certain project). You can reactivate the font when you need it next.

  • Remove deletes the font files entirely. To reinstall you will need to download the font again.

Installed OTF fonts should be available in any good Mac app but some legacy or non-standard applications may not support the system font picker. If the font is showing up in some apps but not others (and you can’t use a different, better-behaving app), here are some other things you can try:

  • Restart the app (or, if in doubt, restart your Mac). Apps such as Microsoft Word cache fonts at startup and may need to be relaunched

  • If the app has its own font system, install the fonts directly in the app. Instructions are beyond the scope of this article

  • Try installing the TTF font(s) and restart the app. Note: installing TTF and OTF versions of the same font may cause duplicate fonts to appear in font menus

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