San Francisco Font is an American neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface created by Apple Inc. It was first released to developers on November 18, 2014. It is the first new typeface designed at Apple in nearly 20 years and has been inspired by Helvetica and DIN. The typeface has been criticized by the San Francisco Chronicle for having nothing to do with the city and for being simply "Helvetica on a low-carb diet.
Name | San Francisco Font |
Style | Neo-grotesque, Sans-serif |
Designer | Apple Inc |
File Format | OTF, TTF |
Font Licence | Free For Personal use. |
Type | Free Font. |
After downloading a font, let’s say Freight Sans font. It came in a zip format. Just double click on the file and it will unzip immediately. The fonts basically come with .ttf (TrueType Font) or .OTF (OpenType Font) format.
Your font is now installed.
Copy the font files (.ttf or .otf) to fonts:// in the File manager.
Or: Go into the /home folder, in the menu select View > Show Hidden Files, you will see the hidden folder .fonts (if not, create it) then copy the font files there.
Or: (under some Linux versions - Ubuntu for example) Double-click the font file > "Install font" button in the preview window.