How to Download Adobe Fonts Onto Your Mac
If you're building your own website on Squarespace, the right font can make all the difference in creating a polished, professional look. Adobe Fonts offers a vast selection of high-quality typefaces that can elevate your brand and help your site stand out. But if you're new to web design, figuring out how to download and use these fonts on your Mac might feel a little overwhelming.
This guide will walk you through the simple steps to download Adobe Fonts onto your Mac, so you can use them on your website and across your other marketing materials.
You’ll need an Adobe Creative cloud subscription and the Creative Cloud desktop app installed.
How to download Adobe fonts onto your Mac
Create a new folder in Finder
Keeping all your downloaded Adobe fonts organised is important, so start by creating a new folder in Finder and give it the name of the font that you are about to download.
2. Find Adobe Fonts on Creative Cloud
Head over to Creative Cloud and type in “Adobe fonts” in the search bar at the top. Click on “Adobe fonts”
3. Search for the font that you want
In the “Adobe Fonts” screen type in the name of the font that you want to download in the search bar at the top. In my case, it is “IvyMode”. Click on the font name that appears in the drop down.
4. Add Font or Add Family
You will now be on the page for the font. It will have the font name and some examples of how the font can be used.
If you scroll down you will be able to see the font in different formats such as “Thin”, “Bold” or “Italic”.
From here, you have the option to select the format that you want, or you can add all the formats as a font family. I prefer to add the font family so I have options for future projects, but if you only need the font for one project then a single format may be more suitable.
To add the font family click on the black button at the top “”Add Family”.
To add just one format of the font, click the “Add font” button next to the format that you want.
5. Head back to the Creative Cloud app
You will now have a pop-up that looks like this:
Select the button “Open App”
6. Download Adobe fonts onto your Mac
Back on the Creative Cloud app, you will be in the “Added Fonts” section. The screen will show your font, or the entire font family, in a highlighted box. It will look like this:
At this point, you will be able to use the fonts across your Adobe apps, but if you want to use it in Canva, your website or share it with a designer then you will need to download the fonts onto your computer.
To install the entire font family onto your Mac click the button at the top “Install Family”
Or if it’s just one font, click on the download icon (cloud with the down arrow) next to the single font format that you want to install onto your Mac.
Once your selection has been installed onto your Mac, you will get a pop up telling you that it’s done, and the fonts are ready to use on other apps.
7. Find the Adobe Fonts on your Mac
Open a new finder window
Head to your root folder. It’s usually called “MacintoshHD”, but yours might be different. If you can’t find your root folder, head to “View” and click “Show Path Bar”
You will now have a bar appear at the bottom showing your root drive. Click on it.
Click on “Users”
Click on your username. Mine is “kavitalythe”
From here, you need to reveal any hidden folders. Use the keyboard shortcut
Shift + Command+ . (full stop / period)
The hidden folders will appear and look faded out like in the screenshot below.
Click on “Library”
Click on “Application Support”
Click on “Abobe”
Click on “CoreSync”
Click on “plugins”
Click on “livetype”
Click on “ .r”
In this folder, you’ll see your font file, or there will be several if you downloaded a font family. Copy and paste them into the folder that you made in step 1.
At this point, the fonts are now easily accessible on your computer, but they are still hidden. You will notice that each file name starts with a full stop/period. Get rid of the period in the file name so that the fonts are no longer hidden.
You can rename the font files now. To do this, I like to right click on each font file and click on “Get Info”. When the information for the font file pops up, I copy the Full Name of the font and paste that in to rename the font file.
Your downloaded Adobe fonts are now ready to use across your apps as you need.
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