What is fontd on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
Registers fonts and makes them available to every app.
fontd is the system font registration manager: it keeps track of installed fonts and makes them available to apps. fontworker helps with font tasks. They are busiest when fonts are installed or removed, or when an app loads a large font library.
- Category
- macOS system
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as fontd, fontworker
Why is fontd using so much CPU or memory?
- Installing, removing or activating many fonts
- Font manager apps or design apps loading big font collections
- A damaged font file
What to do
- 1Let font installs finish
- 2Use Font Book's validation feature to find damaged fonts
- 3Restart your Mac
Safe to quit? With care.
macOS relaunches it; text in open apps could briefly display oddly.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library