How to install Google font on MacOS

Introduction

Google fonts are open source. I was reading through the new angular website and was astonished by the beautiful font used in the code editor shown in the samples. The font name is DM Mono. I wanted to use the same font on my Visual studio code editor for the Angular project development but I could not find a good blog which will guide through the installation process. Hence I am documenting this blog for the same.

Get the font

Follow below steps to download a font from Google fonts website.

Visit the Google fonts website.
Search for the font you like for example DM Mono
Click on the Get font button
It will download a zip containing ttf format files

Install the font on MacOS

Once the zip is downloaded in the default downloads folder on your Mac. Follow below steps

Double click to uzip the zip
Open the folder Ex: DM_Mono
Select all files with extension as .ttf and do not select other files like txt or some other format
Keeping all the files selected double click on any one of them
It will show a font installation screen
Click install button on this screen

Note: The below screenshot shows Replace button since I already installed this font. You will see the same button text as Install during first installation.

The font is now installed successfully on the MacOS. You can now use this font in any code editor like IntelliJ, Visual Studio code, etc.

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