This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that shipped with language-specific updates from Apple (primarily Korean and Chinese fonts). For fonts shipped only with Mac OS X 10.5, please see Apple's documentation.

System fonts up to Mac OS X 10.7[edit]

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• Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1991. It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, but with a larger x-height. citation needed Its design also derives from two other typefaces that were designed to compete with Futura.citation needed It is an exclusively digital typeface that has never been manufactured as metal type.
• Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1991. It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, but with a larger x-height. Its design also derives from two other typefaces that were designed to compete with Futura.

New fonts added with OS X 10.10 Yosemite[edit]

The following system fonts have been added with Yosemite:

• ITC Bodoni 72: Book, Italic, Bold (these three in separate fonts with lining and text figures), Small Caps, Ornaments (Sumner Stone)
• ITF Devanagari
• Kohinoor Devanagari (Satya Rajpurohit)
• Luminari (Philip Bouwsma)
• Phosphate: Inline and Solid (Steve Jackaman & Ashley Muir)
• Shree Devanagari 714 (Modular Infotech)
• SignPainter (House Industries)
• Skia: Light, Light Condensed, Light Extended, Condensed, Extended, Bold, Black, Black Condensed, Black Extended (Matthew Carter; system previously only included regular)
• Sukhumvit Set: Thin, Light, Text, Medium, SemiBold, Bold (Anuthin Wongsunkakon; previously used as a system font for iOS 7.0^[1])
• Bitstream Symbols
• Trattatello (James Grieshaber)

New fonts added with OS X 10.11 El Capitan[edit]

At least the following system fonts have been added with El Capitan:

• PingFang SC / PingFang TC / PingFang HK, a new set of Chinese UI Fonts produced by DynaComware in lieu of deprecated STHeiti Family.
• San Francisco UI / Display / Text.

New fonts added with macOS 10.12 Sierra[edit]

At least the following system fonts have been added with Sierra:

• Toppan Bunkyu Mincho Pr6N Regular
• Toppan Bunkyu Midashi Minchoi StdN ExtraBold
• Toppan Bunkyu Gothic Pr6N Regular / Demibold
• Toppan Bunkyu Midashi Gothic StdN Extrabold
• Monotype LingWai Medium (SC / TC)
• Songti (SC / TC)
• Yu Kyokasho N (Medium / Bold) (Vertical Version / Horizontal Version)
• San Francisco Mono

New fonts added with macOS 10.13 High Sierra[edit]

High Sierra added several system fonts or additional weights of existing system fonts:

• Charter (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic)
• DIN (Alternate Bold, Condensed Bold)
• Hiragino Kaku Gothic StdN W8
• InaiMathi (Bold)
• Kai (Regular)
• Kaiti SC (Regular, Bold, Black)
• Myriad Arabic (Semibold)
• Noto Nastaliq Urdu
• Rockwell (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
• STIX Two Math
• STIX Two Text (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)

macOS 10.14 Mojave[edit]

No new fonts were provided with Mojave.

Font appearances[edit]

• These images compare Roman fonts only, in most styles:

• The fonts in the following list were included as 'extras' with AppleWorks 6,^[2] which was bundled with new iMacs until 2006.^[3]

Hidden fonts[edit]

A number of fonts have also been provided with iMovie, iLife, iDVD and other Apple applications in hidden folders, for the sole use of these applications. The reason why these fonts are hidden is unknown, with licensing issues suggested as the cause. However, one may easily install them for use by all applications by copying them out of their Library directories and installing them as with any third-party font, although one should always check that the license for the fonts allows them to be used outside the given software.^[4]

Notable hidden fonts on macOS include Bank Gothic, Bodoni, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Garamond, several cuts of Lucida and Monotype Twentieth Century.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^Sakawee, Saiyai (December 16, 2013). 'Apple could be bringing back the old Thai font in iOS 7.1 update'. www.techinasia.com. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
2. ^Elferdink, Jim & David Reynolds, AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual, p. 422
3. ^Williams, Warren & Cathleen Merritt, AppleWorks Journal, March 2006, p. 7
4. ^Tomalty, Fletcher. 'Hidden fonts on Mac OS X'. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

References[edit]

• Apple's font list for 10.3 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.4 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.5 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.6 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.7 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.8 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.9 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.12 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.13 (names only, no images)
• Apple's font list for 10.14 (names only, no images)

• Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger (Appendix B contains representations of Latin fonts included with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger)
• Code Style's survey of Mac OS fonts (includes OS 8/9 users)
• Szántó Tibor: A betű (The type) (Hungarian; Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1982, ISBN963 05 0327 1), Chapter XVI.

External links[edit]

Century Gothic For Professional Use

Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1991.^[1][2] It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, but with a larger x-height.^{[citation needed]} Its design also derives from two other typefaces that were designed to compete with Futura.^{[citation needed]} It is an exclusively digital typeface that has never been manufactured as metal type.^{[citation needed]}

Design[edit]

Century Gothic Download Font

Like many geometric sans-serifs, Century Gothic's design has a single-story 'a' and 'g', and an 'M' with slanting sides resembling an upturned 'W'. Century Gothic has a high x-height (tall lower-case characters). Its origins (see below) come from a design intended for large-print uses such as headings and signs, and so it has a reasonably purely geometric design closely based on the circle and square, with less variation in stroke width than fonts designed for small sizes tend to show, and a relatively slender design in its default weight.

Sources[edit]

While many geometric sans-serif typefaces have been released to compete with the popular typeface Futura, Century Gothic is perhaps unique in its origin: it redraws one to match the design proportions of a second. Century Gothic was created to be a substitute font for ITC Avant Garde, designed by Herb Lubalin, and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1970, so a document created in one can be displayed in the other with no change to copyfit.^[3][4] This allows it to substitute interchangeably for Avant Garde in documents, an important feature since Avant Garde is a standard font in some forms of the PostScript digital printing standard, and so Century Gothic allowed Microsoft to use it in preference to paying for an ITC Avant Garde license.

Additionally, Century Gothic's design was based on Monotype's own Twentieth Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1937 and 1947 for the Lanston Monotype Company.^[5] Century Gothic is similar to ITC Avant Garde in its pure geometry, and does not possess the subtle variation in stroke width found in either Futura or Twentieth Century.^[6] However, it differs from ITC Avant Garde in that like Futura and Twentieth Century, Century Gothic does not have a descender at bottom right of the 'u' (making it appear like a Greek upsilon υ), whereas Avant Garde does. Century Gothic also has larger, rounder tittles on the letters i and j more akin to Futura, whereas Avant Garde keeps the tittles square and the same width as the letter strokes. Most notably, it lacks the extreme stylistic alternates of Avant Garde, such as highly slanted letters designed to fit together closely in kerning.^[7]

Design characteristics[edit]

ITC Avant Garde was intended as a display design for large headings and advertisements (although it is somewhat usable for body text because of the high x-height) and as a result Century Gothic is quite a light typeface, especially in default weight, with the classic display typeface feature of tight spacing and quite wide characters, in contrast to Twentieth Century which was intended more for small-size applications with a more solid stroke weight and open spacing.^[8] While its structure is similar to Futura, its regular style is between Futura and Twentieth Century's regular and light weights.

Century Gothic was one of several clones of PostScript standard fonts created by Monotype in collaboration with or sold to Microsoft, including Arial (a clone of Helvetica), Book Antiqua (Palatino) and Bookman Old Style (ITC Bookman).^[9][10] It was bundled with Microsoft Office 4.3 in 1994 and subsequently provided with Plus! 95, Windows 98, Microsoft Works, and various versions of Microsoft Office up to 2010.^[11] A version of Century Gothic, Levenim, that includes Hebrew alphabet characters has been included in later versions of Windows.

Printer ink usage[edit]

According to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Century Gothic uses much less ink than other, similar sans-serif typefaces. It was found that Century Gothic uses about 30% less ink than Arial. In order to save money that would be spent on printer ink for other typefaces, the university reportedly switched their default e-mail and printing typeface from Arial to Century Gothic.^[12] However, the typeface has also been found to use more paper—due to its wider letters—meaning that the savings on ink are offset by an increase in paper costs.^[13]

Free Century Gothic

Along with the serif typeface Garamond, Century Gothic is one of the two typefaces that PrintWise, an initiative of the U.S. government's General Services Administration, recommends U.S. government workers use for printed documents.^[14][15]

Related fonts[edit]

Century Gothic Font For Macbook

Apart from Avant Garde and Futura, a number of other fonts based on Avant Garde have been created to substitute for it in PostScript implementations. A particular case of this is an open-sourced set of fonts developed by URW and donated to the Ghostscript project to create a free PostScript alternative. This includes an AvantGarde clone known as 'Gothic L'. It (or a derivative) is used by much open-source software such as R as a system font.^[16][17] A derivative of this family known as 'TeX Gyre Adventor' has been prepared for use in the TeX scientific document preparation software.^[18]

Century Gothic Fur Macro

References[edit]

1. ^'Geometric fonts'. Linotype. Retrieved 9 May 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^'Century Gothic'. Fonts.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
3. ^Simonson, Mark. 'Monotype's Other Arials'. Mark Simonson Studio. Retrieved 14 July 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^Gavin Ambrose; Paul Harris (1 November 2006). The Fundamentals of Typography. AVA Publishing. p. 145. ISBN978-2-940373-45-1.
5. ^David Kadavy (8 August 2011). Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty. John Wiley & Sons. p. 298. ISBN978-1-119-99901-0.
6. ^Coles, Stephen. 'Alternatives to Futura'. Fontshop. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
7. ^'Avant Garde Gothic Alternates Are Back'. Font Feed. FontShop. Retrieved 9 May 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Shaw, Paul. 'The Kerning Game'. Print magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
9. ^Simonson, Mark. 'The Scourge of Arial'. Mark Simonson Studio Notebook. Retrieved 19 March 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^Downer, John. 'Call It What It Is'. Emigre. Retrieved 20 March 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
11. ^'Century Gothic - Version 2.35'. Microsoft.
12. ^'Wis. college says new e-mail typeface will save money'. Archived from the original on April 6, 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
13. ^Ramde, Dinesh (April 7, 2010). 'Century Gothic a font of wisdom'. Twincities.com. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
14. ^'PrintWise'. Strategic Sourcing. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-04-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
15. ^Stix, Madeleine (March 28, 2014). Teen to gov't: change your typeface, save millions. CNN via KOCO-TV. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
16. ^'Fonts'. R Cookbook. Retrieved 7 April 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
17. ^Horton, Nicholas. 'Specifying fonts in graphics'. SAS & R. Retrieved 7 April 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
18. ^'URW Palladio'. The LaTeX font catalogue. TeX Users Group Denmark. Retrieved 7 April 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

• Media related to Century Gothic at Wikimedia Commons

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