Select the “Real Type 1 fonts” collection. Once your “Real Type 1 fonts” collection has only Type 1 fonts, you can archive them, then remove them from your system. otf, then all the fonts in the family will be OpenType PostScript fonts, so you can delete the entire family from your “Real Type 1 fonts” collection. If the filename for the first font in the Info pane ends in. Tip: Leave the families in the center pane collapsed and select each family for review. otf, or if the Location shows a “Downloadable font asset” link, then you can remove it from the “Real Type 1 fonts” collection (select the font and press ⌫). If the Location detail for the font shows a file extension of. Review the Info pane for each font in the list. Select a font in the middle pane (it doesn’t matter which).ĭrag the selected fonts to the new “Real Type 1 fonts” collection. Select the original Smart Collection in the sidebar. You can’t remove individual fonts from a Smart Collection, but you can copy the fonts to a “regular” collection and remove the “false positive” OpenType fonts.Ĭhoose File > New Collection and name the collection Real Type 1 fonts. Font Book correctly identifies FontAwesome (or Font Awesome) versions 5 and 6 as OpenType PostScript.įont Book populates a Smart Collection using a set of rules. otf files (indicating that they’re OpenType PostScript files).

Note: The popular FontAwesome font set, version 4.x, also shows in Font Book as PostScript Type 1, but the font files are. Leverage the power of Font Book to identify installed Type 1 fonts. This distinct naming means the suitcase and outline files can live together in the same folder. For the Adobe font Carta, which is a set of map symbols, the outline font file’s name is “Carta” and the font suitcase is “Carta.” (“Carta period”). Other shortened variations include Alt (Alternate), Bla (Black), Boo (Book), Clo (Closed), Com (Compressed), Con (Condensed), Ext (Extended), Hea (Heavy), Lig (Light), Med (Medium), Obl (Oblique), Ope (Open), Pos (Poster), Rom (Roman), San (san serif), and Ser (serif).

You can probably guess that the variants are Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Regular, Semibold, and Semibold Italic. Font file names ensure that all the files for one font can coexist without any naming conflicts.įor the Type 1 version of Adobe Garamond, the font suitcase is “Adobe Garamond” and the outline files are AGarBol, AGarBolIta, AGarIta, AGarReg, AGarSem, and AGarSemIta. Outline font file names will have no spaces and incorporate weight and style identifiers. If a font comes with several styles or weights (like bold, light, or italic) then there will be one font suitcase but more than one outline font file-one for each font variation.īoth file types will incorporate at least part of the font name. When you look at these files, the Finder refers to the bitmap font file as a “Font Suitcase” and the outline font file as a “PostScript Type 1 outline font”. Type 1 fonts come in two pieces: a screen representation (bitmap) font, and an outline font, used to draw the font precisely for printers and some applications. You also need to be accepting of the idea of using Terminal. You should be a little familiar with Font Book. You will need to be using an Admin account.

If you have an older version of macOS, some things described here may not be possible. This article assumes that you are using macOS 10.9 or later. You can’t install fonts in the System library and are’t likely to find Type 1 fonts there. Since Type 1 fonts are usually not included with the OS but are instead installed by users, you will usually find them in User or Main libraries. There could actually be more than three font locations, if there is more than one user account on the system. (where is the home directory of the logged-in user) Normally, macOS stores fonts in three places: You might choose to identify and archive your Type 1 fonts immediately, but wait before you remove them from your system. Remove the Type 1 fonts from your system. Identify Type 1 fonts installed anywhere on your Macintosh.Īrchive those Type 1 fonts so you have access to them in the future if you need them. The goals of this article are to help you:

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