The Apple Emoji Font

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The Apple Emoji Font

The Apple Emoji Font is missing from Font Book. I simple want to download the font and add it. I would rather not have to reinstall system software.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), iOS 10.2.1

Posted on Mar 4, 2017 9:21 AM

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Kurt Lang

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Mar 4, 2017 3:28 PM in response to mrbillfromboston

Font Book doesn't show many system fonts, even though they are installed and ready to use. Look in the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. Apple Color Emoji.ttc should already be there.

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Mar 4, 2017 3:29 PM in response to Kurt Lang

It is not there.

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Kurt Lang

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Mar 4, 2017 4:55 PM in response to mrbillfromboston

Okay. The only way it could be missing is someone intentionally removed it. You can restore it from a backup, or copy it from another Mac running Sierra.

If neither of those are an option, you will need to reinstall the OS. Unless you saved a copy of the full Sierra installer. Then you can use an app such as Pacifist to extract just the one item.

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