System Fonts Mac Windows
Common fonts for windows mac arial helvetica sans serif arial black gadget sans serif comic sans ms textile cursive courier new courier monospace georgia times new roman times serif impact charcoal sans serif lucida console monaco monospace lucida sans unicode lucida grande.
System fonts mac windows. To install your fonts using a font management utility e g extensis suitcase font reserve fontagent pro or masterjuggler refer to that utility s documentation for instructions on adding and activating the fonts. On the other hand mactype is highly customizable. After your mac validates the font and opens the font book app the font is installed and available for use. The app supports english but you will find most of the options in the installer still appear in chinese.
This is because the opentype font has all of the necessary components for mac and windows the afm file for mac and then the pfb and pfm files for windows. Getting mac fonts on windows. Smooth fonts on windows 10. It can t read files inside another folder.
Double click the font in the finder then click install font in the font preview window that opens. First a few introductory notes. It comes with many built in and pre configured font smoothing profiles. This slow down happens with all operating systems windows mac os x and linux.
The operating system has to keep track of the larger amount of fonts and each program that uses fonts will have to load and deal with them. Once the app has been installed you have to choose how you want to run it. It automatically starts its service and brings mac and linux like font smoothing in windows immediately just after the installation. That said an opentype font can essentially be copied over and installed from platform to platform as you please.
Also you can take a look to the list of the default fonts included with each version of windows. The names in grey are the generic family of each font. To install a font on windows download it in opentype otf postscript type 1 pfb pfm truetype ttf or truetype collection ttc format. 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.
Go for a custom install and install only the basics. You can select any of the given profiles or you can also create your own profile.