You will now find the new otf file in the same directory. Type ttx with a space after it, find your font file that you just saved and drag it onto the Terminal window. Save it in the desired location for the new font. Leave the name as it is - or you can change it to anything because this is the file name not internal name. In these cases you should manually scroll through the font file and replace the instances where the name listed. Note: If your font has a name that would commonly be used in a font file such as “Glyph” or “Asterisk” you may get some unwanted text replacement and possibly produce an unusable. In the Replace box, type in your desired Font Name. Press Cmd + F again and paste this in the Find box. You will find something like: Ĭopy the name in the quotes. Now, in the font directory you just dragged the file from, you will find a new *.ttx file. Type ttx with a space after it, find your font file and drag it onto the Terminal window. Now I will tell you how to change the font name: Press enterĬopy and paste this: sudo python setup.py installĮnter your admin password when asked. Type cd with a space at the end, find the place at which you downloaded the fonttools-2.4 folder at (in step 3) and drag it onto the Terminal Window. Open Terminal (from Applications > Utilities) I have Xcode installed so I can't tell whether having it makes a difference) Install Xcode (You'll need to login with your Apple ID for free, I'm not sure if this is actually necessary, so do it last if the next few steps don't work. We hope the review on fontlab.There is a method to change the internal name of a font - so you can see it differently from within an app - but you'll need to use Terminal, but it is not very hard:
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