$ sudo -sĮdit the file to contain something like: To use it as a system font (optional): Method 1 (adapted from the Arch and Gentoo wikis)įind out what your current system font is. ttc files Apple uses for some of the core fonts like Menlo and Iowan. Of course you can do this with any font, even the. The Text version is better suited for small sizes. The files I had on my Mac in /System/Library/Fonts were: SFNSDisplay-Black.otfĪnd as you see there are both Display and Text versions of most of the widths, so only install the ones you want, because they both have the conflicting name 'System Font'.

After this it is usable as any other font. As the font is not even installable on a Mac (it is blocked for system use only) I was surprised that it just installed. So I took the font files from my Mac and installed them onto my Linux machine using gnome-font-viewer (though I think any method would work).

I love FOSS as much as the next guy, but find it lacking in the font area.