: How to use San Francisco font on Windows? I'm doing all graphic design in a startup company of some friends, and a major part of our product is developing an app that should run on everything

@Dunderdale640

Step 1: Download the font package from Apple.

developer.apple.com/fonts/


Make sure to download the regular fonts and not the compact fonts for watchOS. The download will have an annoying .pkg file that Windows users will be unable to open immediately. That’s okay.


Step 2: Download and install 7zip

www.7-zip.org/download.html
This will allow you to dig into the .pkg file and navigate to the font files.


Step 3: Open the .pkg file using 7zip.


The fonts will be found by navigating to San Francisco Pro.pkg > Payload > Payload > . > Library > Fonts

Select all of the font files and click the “Extract” button in the top navigation of 7zip. Once extracted you can install the fonts like any other Windows font.



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@Candy945

You go here: developer.apple.com/fonts/ (yes I know this is the official link - thing is: SF is a open type font, its just "hidden" deep in the downloaded package)

Then you download the font.

Then open the downloaded zip with 7zip. do all the following steps with 7zip:


open the folder SFPro
open the San Francisco Pro.pkg
open the file Payload~
open the folder .
open the folder Library
open the folder Fonts


Here are all the fonts you need. BUT, for some reason, at least in my case, if I install the italics I can not choose the regular font in an application.
I don't know why and haven't tried anything like renaming or such because I just found all of this.
Which is thy I have not installed the italics at the moment. But the rest works just fine.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: With the converter, which @Tanno shared, I converted the font into .ttf and it all works now.

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@Moriarity648

I'm resurrecting this from the death, because I think I have the answer.

I ended up downloading the font here, and proceeded to convert all the fonts to TTF format using this converter. This has worked great for me.

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@Turnbaugh909

Unfortunately Apple aren't too concerned with Windows users. They expect everyone who is designing for Mac to use a Mac. And since the San Francisco font has been created with specific features only available for Mac it is only available on Mac and unlikely to be available on Windows any time soon (unless someone decides to hack it, which is a possibility).

Since San Francisco is very similar to Helvetica Neue (can you tell the difference?) you are probably fine to just use that instead, although San Francisco is more condensed.

A comparison of San Francisco and similar fonts:



As you can see, San Francisco is very similar to Helvetica in shape, but possibly closer to Roboto in proportions and FF DIN in weight... Wether any of that matters much to you is obviously up to you. Personally I'd just stick with Helvetica.

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