Apple Emoji Font Download For Mac

Excuse the long title, but this drove me absolutely bonkers. Part of creating prototypes that are as realistic as possible is ensuring that you have as close to the actual resources as possible. I was building a Figma prototype the other day on a Windows desktop I have at home and it did take more effort than I liked to setup Apple’s UI fonts. Being an ex-Software Engineer I did find a way, and I hope to help other Designers who may not have the know-how.

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Step 1: Download the fonts

Mac: To type the symbol, just press Option + Shift + K on your Mac device. It’s that simple. Of course, it’s important to note that the Apple symbol typed out this way won’t display properly. 2) Uninstall other emoji theming solutions such as Anemone, Bytafont, and EmojiFontManager. Remember to revert to the stock emoji before doing so! 3) Transfer the emoji font file to your device via a method of your choice (AirDrop, email, SSH, etc.) The easiest way to get the iOS 11.1 emoji file is directly from Poomsmart. Double-click the font in the Finder, then click Install Font in the font preview window that opens. After your Mac validates the font and opens the Font Book app, the font is installed and available for use.

Sounds easy enough– after a quick Google I quickly found myself on the official source of Apple’s San Francisco fonts for text and display:

Problem is, the .dmg file is not a native format to Windows. Most Designers and Mac people will recognise this as a standard file format containing applications or plugins for applications. Think of it as a fancy .zip or .rar file.

I followed this guide and similar resources, but to no avail:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/71470/how-to-use-san-francisco-font-on-windows

I wanted to install as little single-use software as possible, and had no luck extracting using the 7zip utility (refer back to the featured image at the beginning). After some more digging, I actually found and downloaded the fonts from here in a lovely .zip folder:

End of story right? Extract the folder and install the fonts? Nope! Windows 10 throws a fit at some .otf files.

Step 2: Convert your Fonts to Installable Formats

The easy mode is to use an online converter, but I find that online tools like that don’t make it easy to convert multiple files at a time. This is probably to prevent people overloading their systems with huge requests. If you only have one or two fonts, you can probably use one like this:

Ain’t as much fun though, is it? Let’s do the techie thing and convert them ourselves!

2a. Install the Windows subsystem for Linux on your machine:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-bash-shell-command-line-windows-10

If you haven’t used it before and are a bit daunted by using terminals, don’t worry I’ll try to make it as clear as possible :wink:. Plus, it’s the Swiss Army Knife of computers. I hooked up my system with Ubuntu as I thought most guides online would be in that format.

2b. Open up a bash terminal once you’re ready. Windows key + “bash.exe” or within the start menu, find the program “bash.exe”.

I found and used this guide to help me:
http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/convert-otf-to-ttf-font-on-ubuntu.html

So, let’s install the fontforge cli (command line interface) tool:

</div><table><tbody><tr><td><div><div>2</div><div>4</div><div>6</div><div>8</div></div></td><td><div><div><span>sudo </span><span>apt</span><span>-</span><span>get</span><span>update</span></div><div><span># Now install fontforge</span></div><div><span># Change directory to where you downloaded the fonts.</span></div><div><span>cd</span><span>/</span><span>mnt</span><span>/</span><span>c</span><span>/</span><span>Users</span><span>/</span><span>Chuck</span><span>/</span><span>Downloads</span><span>/</span><span>Assets</span><span>/</span><span>Fonts</span><span>/</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since the file systems are quite different on a Windows machine versus a Linux machine, it’ll take a bit of getting used to and wrangling the two worlds to get to where you want to be. If you think of your <code>Local C:</code> drive, that’s just a hard drive device on the computer. Linux typically mounts those devices on the root system under <code>/mnt</code>, so the path above is saying <code>/folder where Linux mounts hard drive and USB drives/the C drive/usual folders...</code>.</p><p>Back on Windows land, copy paste the script to a new file where you downloaded your fonts and call it <code>otf2ttf.sh</code>. Notepad application is just fine. You could call it anything really, but if you’re charting really unfamiliar territory it’s best to leave the names as is:</p><div><textarea wrap='soft' readonly='>#!/usr/local/bin/fontforge # Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf) Print('Opening '+$1); Open($1); Print('Saving '+$1:r+'.ttf'); Generate($1:r+'.ttf'); Quit(0);

# Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf)

Open($1);

Generate($1:r+'.ttf');

Done? Cool. Make sure it’s executable over in bash land.

</div><table><tbody><tr><td><div><div>2</div><div>4</div><div>6</div></div></td><td><div><div><span>chmod</span><span>+</span><span>x</span><span>otf2ttf</span><span>.sh</span></div><div><span># Lost? Make sure you're in the right directory! Check using pwd command:</span></div><div><span>/</span><span>mnt</span><span>/</span><span>c</span><span>/</span><span>Users</span><span>/</span><span>Chuck</span><span>/</span><span>Downloads</span><span>/</span><span>Assets</span><span>/</span><span>Fonts</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sweet, now we can do our conversions!</p><h2 id='apple-color-emoji-download'>Apple Color Emoji Download</h2><div><textarea wrap='soft' readonly='># Test out a single file to make sure it works as expected: fontforge -script otf2ttf.sh ./SF-Fonts-June19/SF-UI/SF-UI-Display-Black.otf # Worked? Great! Let's convert them all up for i in ./SF-Fonts-June19/SF-UI/*.otf; do fontforge -script otf2ttf.sh $i; done

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2 4	# Test out a single file to make sure it works as expected: fontforge-script otf2ttf.sh./SF-Fonts-June19/SF-UI/SF-UI-Display-Black.otf # Worked? Great! Let's convert them all up foriin./SF-Fonts-June19/SF-UI/*.otf;dofontforge-script otf2ttf.sh$i;done

Step 3: Install the Fonts

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All that’s left is to install all the fonts! To make this easier, let’s put all the .ttf files in a folder:

</div><table><tbody><tr><td><div><div>2</div><div>4</div><div>6</div><div>8</div><div>10</div></div></td><td><div><div><span>cd</span><span>SF</span><span>-</span><span>Fonts</span><span>-</span><span>June19</span><span>/</span><span>SF</span><span>-</span><span>UI</span></div><div><span># Make a new folder for the ttf</span></div><div><span>mv</span><span>*</span><span>.ttf</span><span>converted</span><span>-</span><span>fonts</span></div><div><span># Prove they're there</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Highlight all the new <code>.ttf</code> fonts in Windows explorer, right click and install:<br /></p><p>Well done; go forth and let your prototyping skills shine!</p><p>If you get stuck or want to chat, you can find me on Twitter via @chuckwired or email.</p><p><strong>Apple Color Emoji</strong> represents a significant milestone in both the history of type technology and character standardization. </p><p>Of course color fonts are nothing new, with overprinting techniques in use from the earliest days of movable metal type. In digital typography layering has long been used to achieve multicolor results and color bitmap fonts have been around a while. However, Mac OS X Lion and the inclusion of the Apple Color Emoji font represent the first time a modern operating system has included both support and a showcase color font. Although the technology is basic, with color bitmaps included at two sizes in a proprietary “sbix” table, in years to come, as color fonts gain traction, we’ll look back to 2011 as the year it all began.</p><p>Of even more significance is the fact that the glyphs included in the font are Unicode encoded. In an effort initiated by Google and with significant help from Apple and Microsoft, 722 Emoji symbols were included in the recently published Unicode 6.0 standard, putting Emoji on par with the Latin alphabet and other writing systems encoded in Unicode. This means messages and documents containing Emoji are fully searchable and indexable, and Unicode Emoji fonts are included with Windows Phone 7.5 and the Windows 8 Developer Preview. The encoding effort was not without controversy, but effectively legitimizes nontraditional forms of written expression, and opens the door for the encoding of other symbols, including those found in popular symbol encoded fonts like Wingdings and Webdings.</p><p>As to the design itself, it’s more than adequate, the symbols are friendly and legible, but in reality the design isn’t all that important. Of all the fonts issued in 2011 this is the one we’ll all come back to in ten or twenty years as clearly being of the most historical significance. </p><p><small><strong>Si Daniels</strong> is Lead Program Manager for fonts at Microsoft Corp.</small></p><h2 id='apple-emoji-font-download-for-mac-os'>Apple Emoji Font Download For Mac Os</h2><img src='https://i.stack.imgur.com/qpA38.png' alt='Emoji' title='Emoji' /><p><small>Occupy Wall Street image from Intro to Narratives in Emoji 101.</small></p></p>
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