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.
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.
Looking for Apple fonts? Click to find the best 85 free fonts in the Apple style. Every font is free to download! Install fonts On your Mac, do any of the following: In the Font Book app, click the Add button in the Font Book toolbar, locate and select a font, then click Open. Drag the font file to the Font Book app icon in the Dock.
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.
New York
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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 2,400 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.
TrueType and AAT
Get specifications for the TrueType font format and the Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) Font Feature Registry for advanced font rendering.
Install fonts
Double-click the font in the Finder, then click Install Font in the font preview window that opens. After your Mac validates the font and opens the Font Book app, the font is installed and available for use.
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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.
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 disable any font that isn't required by your Mac. Select the font in Font Book, then choose Edit > Disable. The font remains installed, but no longer appears in the font menus of your apps. Fonts that are disabled show ”Off” next to the font name in Font Book.
Remove fonts
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You can remove any font that isn't required by your Mac. Select the font in Font Book, then choose File > Remove. Font Book moves the font to the Trash.
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macOS supports TrueType (.ttf), Variable TrueType (.ttf), TrueType Collection (.ttc), OpenType (.otf), and OpenType Collection (.ttc) fonts. macOS Mojave adds support for OpenType-SVG fonts.
Legacy suitcase TrueType fonts and PostScript Type 1 LWFN fonts might work but aren't recommended.