I am trying to add a font directly into the fonts folder (system>library>fonts), but it is not allowing me to. Not sure why, because I have in the past. Does anyone know if something changed? or how to add fonts directly?
Mac Pro
Use Font Book, or switch to Linux or BSD. Linux and BSD platforms will work better for you and for your system-operation preferences here. Those platforms are built to allow this and other direct modifications, and permit extensive source-level platform customization capabilities. macOS is designed to prevent users from causing themselves problems, and increasingly also to prevent malicious apps from causing corruptions or breaches. If you really want to do this with macOS, I expect you’ll have to override system integrity protection. Or use Font Book.
You can't make modifications to any folder inside /System. These are mounted read-only in Big Sur.
In any case, you should not. The correct place would be /Library/Fonts, and NEVER /System/Library/Fonts.
In any case, the proper way to handle fonts IS via Font Book.
EDIT: Font Book is already on your mac. Just press command-space and type Font
Thanks for your response MrHoffman. What's a good site to download this app from? I am on a MacBook pro (an older one).
Thank you so much!
alternative to using font book
