Font Library

The Font Library is where you pick the font for your text. One browser gives you everything Paint S can draw with: over 200 fonts built into the app, the fonts installed on your Mac, and the font files you import yourself.

Open the Font Library

In the attributes bar below the toolbar, click the Font button. It appears when the Text tool is active or a text object is selected, and it shows the current font's name.

The library opens as a popover with a section list on the left and the fonts on the right. Each font takes two rows: its family name on top, and a sample rendered in the font itself below—so you can see the look before you commit. Fonts that cover Chinese, Japanese, or Korean show their sample in those characters.

Sections

Recent: The fonts you chose last, up to 20, newest first. It appears once you pick your first font.
Favorites: The fonts you starred, up to 100; when full, the oldest favorite is replaced.
Imported: The font files you brought into Paint S (see Import Fonts). This section is always listed, even when empty.
System Fonts: The text fonts installed on your Mac, grouped by style and writing system—Serif, Sans Serif, Monospaced, Script, Decorative, Chinese/Japanese/Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, and more. Symbol-only fonts and families already covered by the built-in or imported lists are left out to avoid duplicates.
Built-in Fonts: The 200+ fonts Paint S ships with, grouped by style—Serif, Handwriting, Brush, Fire & Ice, and more. These are optimized for drawing and are embedded in your documents automatically.

Recent, Favorites, and Imported sit at the top of the list so the fonts you actually use are always one click away. System Fonts and Built-in Fonts are collapsible groups: click one to browse its categories, and click the disclosure triangle to collapse it again. Scrolling the font list keeps the matching category highlighted on the left, and vice versa.

Choose a Font

Click a font to apply it and close the library. If you are editing text with a selection, the selection changes font; if a text object is selected but not being edited, the whole object changes; otherwise, the next characters you type use it.
Click the ☆ at the right of any row to add that font to Favorites (click it again to remove it). Starring doesn't close the library.
Search: type in the search field to filter by family name—including its localized form, such as 苹方—by style, or by category.

Import Fonts

Imported fonts are yours to add beyond what macOS and Paint S provide. There are two entry points:

Click ＋ in the Imported section header, or
when the section is empty, click Import Font… in its placeholder row.

You can import TTF and OTF files from your Mac, up to 200 in total. Files you already imported are recognized and skipped, and when the library is full the app tells you to remove one to make room. Imported fonts are available in every Paint S document, but only in Paint S—they are not installed in Font Book or other apps.

To remove an imported font, right-click it and confirm. This deletes only the copy inside Paint S; the original file on your Mac is untouched.

Fonts and Your Files

Paint Documents (.paint): Built-in and imported fonts are embedded automatically when you save, so the document renders correctly even on a Mac that doesn't have those fonts. System fonts come with macOS and are not embedded—they render fine on any Mac.
SVG exports: Text stays real, editable text in the SVG by default, which means the viewer needs the font to render it identically. Tick Text to Outlines in the save panel to convert text to vector shapes instead. Text filled with a pattern is the exception — it is exported as an image, so its characters are no longer editable. See Export as SVG.