Yosemite San Francisco Font
Replace Helvetica Neue on your 10.10 Yosemite Mac with San Francisco – the Watch font.
The font is adapted from San Francisco – Apple’s new typeface for the Apple Watch. This project was inspired by jenskutilek’s Fira System Font Replacement. The fonts were generated using dtinth's Yosemite System Font Patcher.
How to Install:
- Download the zipped font files.
- Copy the 6 font files to
/Library/Fonts
on your Mac. (protip: presscmd+shift+g
while in Finder to type the path directly.) - Run
sudo chown root:wheel /Library/Fonts/System\ San\ Francisco*
to set the proper ownership of the font files. - Repair Disk Permissions
diskutil repairPermissions /
(for good measure) - Log out and log back in to apply the changes.
How to Uninstall:
- Navigate to
/Library/Fonts
on your Mac and delete the 6 files starting withSystem San Francisco
. - Log out and log back in to apply the changes.
How does it Work?
These San Francisco fonts have a special name table with names identical to those of the system fonts. Because the font folder /Library/Fonts
takes precedence over the fonts which are in /System/Library/Fonts
, these specially crafted fonts are used for the user interface instead of the real system fonts. The original system fonts are not deleted or modified in any way.
Important Notes:
- I assume no copyright over these fonts.
- I assume no liability for improper installation or improper use.
- You must be a registered Apple Developer to use these fonts. Do not download if you don't have a paid Apple Developer Program account.
- These fonts will only work as Helvetica Neue system replacement fonts. If you attempt to use them differently, they will not work!