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Configure ImageMagick to find all fonts on macOS

ImageMagick checks different files when loading fonts. To see which ones your installation is checking, run this:

magick convert -debug configure -list font 2>&1 | grep -E "Searching|Loading"

In my case, one of those files is ~/.config/ImageMagick/type.xml. Instead of creating it by hand, I’m going to use a script provided by the ImageMagick project:

mkdir -p ~/.config/ImageMagick
curl -L https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/imagick_type_gen > ~/.config/ImageMagick/type_gen
chmod +x ~/.config/ImageMagick/type_gen

Now I’m going to pipe the paths of all font files in my system to the type_gen script, and write the results to type.xml:

find /System/Library/Fonts /Library/Fonts ~/Library/Fonts -name "*.[ot]tf" | \
    ~/.config/ImageMagick/type_gen -f - > \
    ~/.config/ImageMagick/type.xml

Now ImageMagick will show all those fonts when running this command:

magick convert -list font

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