Click “Proceed” – this will remove all third party additions and nonstandard fonts and return you to the base Mac OS X font pack.

From Font Book, pull down the “File” menu and select “Restore Standard Fonts…”.

How to Remove Third Party Fonts & Recover Default Mac Fontsįinally, if you accidentally deleted an essential typeface or system font, or you added so many third party fonts that your font menus are a disaster, you can restore the standard font family to Mac OS X:

Select the font to remove and either right-click on it and select “Remove ‘Fontname’ Family” or choose the same option from the File menu.

Launch Font Book (located in /Applications/) and use the Search function to find the font you want to delete.

Installed an ugly font and decide you don’t want it on the Mac anymore? Back in Font Book we can easily uninstall them: Font Book is basically the font manager for Mac OS, letting you do all sorts of font related tasks including installing and removing fonts on the Mac.

Regardless of how you install fonts onto the Mac, you can always browse through all fonts – both the default system bundled fonts and user added fonts – through the Font Book application. To add fonts through Font Book, you can either drag & drop the fonts into the application, or use the File menu options. You can also go through the process of both installing and removing fonts in Mac OS X entirely through the Font Book application. This is done through the Font Book app, which can also be launched separately to manage your typefaces. This window will also let you preview any stylized versions (bold, italic, etc) of the font that are available and tell you if it’s installed or not. When you double click on a font file, other than being able to install it, you’ll also see a font character preview showing the font face. Locate the font file in the Mac file system.At it’s most simple, all you need to do is this: Installing new fonts on Mac is very easy. We’ll cover the process of installing new fonts, deleting unwanted fonts, and also restoring your default system fonts to MacOS and Mac OS X in case you mess something up in the process (though that is fairly unlikely).

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