How to Add Free Fonts to Photoshop on Mac

This tutorial will show you how to add free fonts to Photoshop on Mac.

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In this tutorial you will learn how to add free fonts to Photoshop on the mac. Adding fonts to your existing collection is very important because it can spice up your design and graphic portfolio. Most of the time, you will get much better results by using fonts that don't come stock with the Photoshop library.

Step #1 -- Go to: dafont.com/

Dafont.com has a lot of great free fonts for you to start using in Photoshop. It has all of its fonts categorized in easy to find sections. So, if you want a cartoon font, simply look under the fancy tab, and you'll see "cartoon" This will give you many options to choose from.

Step #2 -- Click "Curly" under the "Fancy" Column

Once you do this, all of the library fonts for this category will show below. Scroll down to check them all out. Lets download the "Alice in Wonderland" font.

Step #3 -- Click Download

The download button is grey and is located to the far right of the font name. It will only take a few seconds for your font to download.

Step #4 -- Unzip the font

Locate our downloaded font, and simply left click on the zip file, and the Archive Utility will unzip it for us. Head back to the downloads section of the computer, and you will see the blue folder holding our font content.

Step #4 -- Open Font Book Application

Spotlight search for "Font Book". The Font Book is where are going to be adding our recently downloaded "Alice in Wonderland" font to.

Step #5 -- Locate the font

Click File - Add fonts. The hot key for this is "Command O". You will then begin locating the unzipped font folder. Ours is saved in the "Downloads" section. Navigate to here, and you will see our folder.

Step #7 -- Adding the font

Double click the blue folder that contains our font content. From here, you will see the font name with a .ttf extension. This is a very common font format. There can also be a .otf extension. Double click the font and it will automatically import to your font book.

Step #8 -- Check font in Photoshop

Open Photoshop and view your font library. You will soon locate the font we added to our font library, "Alice in Wonderland".

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