10-09-2021, 08:06 PM
Gimp does not come with any fonts. Initially it uses system fonts and then any that you might add.
This from one of the Gimp devs "Sans" (called "Sans-Serif" nowadays), are font aliases defined by the fontconfig library, which is used by GIMP to organize fonts.
You should look for Sans-Serif as a replacement in your new installation. One problem is when you click in the text with the text tool it uses a 'fallback' font, might be called 'Standard' in Mac. Do not worry about this, just change it back to Sans-serif from your font dialogue.
I only have an old OSX Virtualbox for demos, but this is text made in Gimp 2.8 and opened in Gimp 2.10
30 second demo https://i.imgur.com/oFzQyvO.mp4
You might also find the font as: Default sans-serif font in MacOS
MacOS (El Capitan and newer) San Francisco
MacOS (Yosemite) Helvetica Neue
MacOS (older versions) Lucida Grande
This from one of the Gimp devs "Sans" (called "Sans-Serif" nowadays), are font aliases defined by the fontconfig library, which is used by GIMP to organize fonts.
You should look for Sans-Serif as a replacement in your new installation. One problem is when you click in the text with the text tool it uses a 'fallback' font, might be called 'Standard' in Mac. Do not worry about this, just change it back to Sans-serif from your font dialogue.
I only have an old OSX Virtualbox for demos, but this is text made in Gimp 2.8 and opened in Gimp 2.10
30 second demo https://i.imgur.com/oFzQyvO.mp4
You might also find the font as: Default sans-serif font in MacOS
MacOS (El Capitan and newer) San Francisco
MacOS (Yosemite) Helvetica Neue
MacOS (older versions) Lucida Grande