Get the details, frameworks, and tools you need to use system fonts for Apple platforms in your apps. These typefaces offer the control and flexibility to optimally display text at a variety of sizes, in many different languages, across multiple interfaces.
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 remove any font that isn't required by your Mac. Select the font in Font Book, then choose File Remove. How to install fonts on a Mac. MacOS (or on iOS, if you need help with that) has greatly improved the way you can quickly download, preview, and enable new fonts for popular Mac design apps.
What’s New in Fonts
Watch the WWDC19 session “Font Management and Text Scaling” to learn about the latest advancements in font technologies coming to iOS 13.
SF Pro
This sans-serif typeface is the system font for iOS, macOS, and tvOS, and includes a rounded variant. It provides a consistent, legible, and friendly typographic voice.
SF Compact
This sans-serif typeface is the system font for watchOS, and includes a rounded variant. It suits a wide range of content and is easily legible in a variety of contexts.
SF Mono
This monospaced variant of San Francisco enables alignment between rows and columns of text, and is used in coding environments like Xcode. It supports Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts and contains six weights in upright and italic.
1001 Free Mac Fonts
New York
This all-new, Apple-designed serif typeface is based on essential aspects of historical type styles and is designed to work on its own as well as alongside San Francisco.
Human Interface Guidelines
Read the Human Interface Guidelines to learn how to use these fonts in your app on Apple platforms.
Videos
Gain insight into typographic principles and how they apply to the San Francisco fonts, the result of a deep collaboration between design and engineering teams. This typeface defers to the content it displays to give text unmatched legibility, clarity, and consistency.
Tools and Frameworks
Use the latest frameworks in Xcode to integrate dynamic text handling and typesetting capabilities into your app.
UIKit
UIKit provides custom text management and rendering on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
AppKit
AppKit provides font selection, text processing, and rendering for macOS.
Core Text
This text engine and API for Apple platforms provides sophisticated text handling and typesetting capabilities for managing adaptive user interfaces.
SF Symbols
SF Symbols provides over 1,500 configurable symbols that integrate seamlessly with San Francisco.
Apple Font Tool Suite
This suite of command-line tools includes an installer package, tutorial, user documentation, and reference.
Download Mac Fonts
TrueType and AAT
Download Cool Mac Fonts
Get specifications for the TrueType font format and the Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) Font Feature Registry for advanced font rendering.