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I tried to install two font families, but they appear in Font Book as individual fonts instead. How can I turn them into the families I want?

For a group of fonts to be recognized by macOS as a family, they need to be structured and installed as one, although normally spread across multiple files. If Font Book doesn’t recognize them as a family, then all it can do is put them into a collection, which works differently. Key to any font family is its common typographic name, and withinTry FontLab’s TransType from for $97 — it does have a trial period, so you should be able to test the app out first. The way that it builds individual fonts into families is explained in full at .

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