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Ligatures 1.1.0
Ligatures 1.1.0, the free font manager for Mac.
What's new
- New app icon. A fresh red icon replaces the monoline "fi".
- Built by GitHub Actions. This release's download is built and checked automatically on GitHub's macOS machines, with a SHA-256 checksum file alongside it.
- Lowercase names. The repository is now
khanh-ly/ligaturesand the download isligatures.zip. Old links keep working. - Better README. A download link, light and dark screenshots, and badges for the latest version, build status, macOS version and license.
The features from 1.0 are unchanged: browse and install fonts from Google Fonts and Fontshare, grid and list views, favorites, and new-font alerts.
Install
- Download ligatures.zip below and double-click it.
- Drag Ligatures into your Applications folder. If you have 1.0, replace it; your installed fonts and favorites are kept.
- Open it. Because the app isn't notarized by Apple, macOS blocks it the first time:
- Click Done on the message that macOS can't verify the app.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to the message about Ligatures.
- Confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally.
Requirements: macOS 12 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.
Checksum
SHA-256 of ligatures.zip, also in the attached ligatures.zip.sha256:
fd771cc75d26004534eb2e1d5c1a8b54b3791419398a163731775108fa6f7e5a
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or Indian Type Foundry. Fonts keep their own licenses, shown in each family's details panel.
Ligatures 1.0
The first release of Ligatures, the free fonts manager: browse every free family on Google Fonts and Fontshare and install them on your Mac with one click.
Features
- Two libraries. About 2,015 families from Google Fonts and Fontshare, with live previews in your own text and size.
- Find fonts fast. Search by family or designer, filter by library, category and language, and sort by popularity, trending, newest, name or number of styles.
- Grid and list views, with a details panel showing every style, the license, variable axes and web embed code.
- Install and uninstall straight into
~/Library/Fonts. Uninstalled fonts go to the Trash, and Ligatures only ever removes fonts it installed. - New font alerts each time you open the app, plus favorites.
- Self-contained. Nothing else to install: no Python or developer tools needed.
Install
- Download ligatures.zip below and double-click it.
- Drag Ligatures into your Applications folder.
- Open it. Because the app isn't notarized by Apple, macOS blocks it the first time:
- Click Done on the message that macOS can't verify the app.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to the message about Ligatures.
- Confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally.
Requirements: macOS 12 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.
Checksum
SHA-256 of ligatures.zip:
7e1f93f8610223def3496e095d5db9680d80a3a6cf1a90e4a44d3d2f20699dd6
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or Indian Type Foundry. Fonts keep their own licenses, shown in each family's details panel.