


System/Library/Fonts/AppleGothic.ttf: AppleGothic That command returns many many lines on it's own, here is a handful of interesting ones I saw in the list: If I'm incorrect in this assumption, simply take out everything after family. Considering your example, I assume you would prefer the OS X specific ones. Grepping /Library filters out a bunch of fonts in /usr/X11*, which are only used by X11. Which you should be able to grep and manipulate as you'd like. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial-style sans serif faces. A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. Trademark: Arial is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.ĭescription: Monotype Drawing Office 1982. Location: /Library/Fonts/Arial Narrow.ttfĭesigner: Robin Nicholas, Patricia SaundersĬopyright: © 2007 The Monotype Corporation. It should return a huge list of font data in the format of: Fonts: That being said here's the command to pull font information from system_profiler: system_profiler SPFontsDataType I know that this is quite an old post, but I just stumbled upon it from Google while searching for something similar (mostly just wanting to list active fonts via Terminal.) I ended up remembering that activated fonts are listed in System Information which can be pulled from the system_profiler command.
