Installing All Google Fonts On MacOS

Today, I needed to pick up a few fonts from Google Fonts. Usually, I’m just linking to them from my code, but this time I needed to download and install them.

Installing fonts is a pain in the ass. It annoys me, so I went looking for a better solution. Something I was unaware of is that Google has all of their fonts easily accessible within a GitHub repo. After digging a bit more, I found an auto-installer script that will handle the entire library. Here’s how to run it:

Instructions

1. Open your terminal. If you don’t know how to, do some Googling.
2. Run this command:

   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qrpike/Web-Font-Load/master/install.sh | sh

3. Pleasantly wait for the script to run.

Yup. That’s it. Every font from Google Fonts is now installed. Celebrate, drink a beer, and figure out what you’re going to do with all of that extra free time.

For the paranoid (and those who know better than to run anonymous code), the source to the script is available on GitHub. I’ve also taken the liberty of embedding it below as well. Enjoy.

#!/bin/bash
# For OS X-based systems.

clear
echo "Installing all Google Web Fonts onto your Mac"
echo "Downloading the fonts..."
cd ~/Documents/
curl -L https://github.com/google/fonts/tarball/master -o master.tar.gz
echo "Extracting the fonts..."
mkdir -p goog-fonts/fonts
tar -zxf master.tar.gz -C goog-fonts/fonts
cd goog-fonts
cd fonts
find . -mindepth 2 -type f -print -exec mv {} . \;
rm -R -- */
rm *.txt
rm *.json
rm *.csv
rm *.md
rm *.html
rm *.py
rm AUTHORS
rm CONTRIBUTORS
cd ..
mv fonts/* /Library/Fonts/

echo "Fonts installed; Cleaning up files..."
cd ~/Documents/
rm -f master.tar.gz
rm -rf goog-fonts
echo "All done! All Google Fonts installed."

Credit: Web-Font-Load by Quinton Pike