Using San Francisco in a Unity app

Hi everyone,


For a while now, I've been working on an augmented-reality app in the Unity game engine, and recently I was hoping to try to get it to look more native to iOS. One major step in this process is using the native system font, San Francisco (at the moment, I'm using Roboto, which looks nice but out-of-place on iOS). However, I'm unable to find a way for the Unity game engine to get the system font from the operating system, so I think I will need to download San Francisco and put it in Unity manually. Is there a way I can go about doing this while remaining completely within Apple's guidelines?


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The readMe w/the download clearly states devs etc. are only allowed to use SF during mockups, never distribution.


Suggest you direct Unity-specific queries to their support/forums otherwise.


Good luck.

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Is that link to San Francisco the only one that exists, or is there by chance another one that is tailored more towards distribution?

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Is this the same question?

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It sounded to me like you only responded with regards to the font Apple published for mockup purposes, but I was wondering if by chance you might know of another "version" of the font which is appropriate for implementation in apps.

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There is only one SF version font from Apple, which:

- can't be used for distribution

- can be used for UI mock ups


If there were other SF versions than just the one, that qualified for your use, implementation, adoption, appropriation and/or rights-to-use, under any conditions, I'd have noted, named, referenced, cited and linked where possible, with the single goal of not forcing you to frame an orthogonal followup.


There are not, so I couldn't. Hope that's clear now, sorry if I left room for doubt. Apologies I couldn't help more.


Good luck.


Ken

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I'm unable to find a way for the Unity game engine to get the system font from the operating system

In theory, you should be able to use Font.GetOSInstalledFontNames, but using that example code I don't see San Francisco or New York on my iPad running 14.3.
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