On Mac Catalina,
Have tried both Galaxy Watch Designer 1.8.1 and Galaxy Watch Studio 2.0.0
No matter what technique I have used (adding fonts to font folder, using the resource to add font, adding to Mac proper) I can’t add a new font to the app.
I even tried renaming the font file to WatchFontName.ttf!!
Has anybody succeeded on Mac Catalina?
On a Mac, the font must be installed before it can be added to GWS. To install the font, double-click the font in the Finder and click Install Font. To make the font available to all projects in GWS, add the font to the \\Galaxy Watch Studio\font directory.
Ron
Samsung Developer Program
Ron,
Yes, this is exactly what everyone/every site says. It just doesn’t seem to work. IF this worked , all the ttf fonts from Mac would be available, They just aren’t. We only see a bunch of Watch.... fonts
Has ANYBODY done this successfully???
ALSO: What do you call \\Galaxy Watch Studio\font
That’s not at all clear where it is.
Jacques
HI Jaques,
That will teach me to copy from the FAQ I believe the folder is still Galaxy Watch Designer on Mac as it is on Windows. If you can’t find the Folder on your Mac let us know and if no one posts a screen shot of how to find it, I’ll have one of our support team give me a screen shot and I’ll post it Monday.
GWS will only see fonts that are in that folder or ones you add manually to the project.
Ron
Samsung Developer Program
This is ALL folders I have. I have created a folder named font everywhere and added the .ttf file there AND the OS. I tried renaming the file without a space.
Ugh
`lax@iMac GalaxyWatchDesigner.app % tree -v -L 3
.
├── Contents
│ ├── Eclipse
│ │ ├── GalaxyWatchDesigner.ini
│ │ ├── artifacts.xml
│ │ ├── configuration
│ │ ├── p2
│ │ └── plugins
│ ├── Info.plist
│ ├── MacOS
│ │ └── GalaxyWatchDesigner
│ ├── Resources
│ │ ├── OpenSourceLicenses.txt
│ │ ├── ReleaseNotes.txt
│ │ ├── [GWD]Guidelines\ on\ Connecting\ a\ Watch\ device\ to\ GWD.pdf
│ │ ├── font
│ │ ├── mac.icns
│ │ ├── res
│ │ ├── sample
│ │ └── template
│ ├── conf
│ │ ├── font.sh
│ │ ├── log.conf
│ │ └── updateURL.conf
│ ├── font
│ │ └── pirulen\ rg.ttf
│ └── tizen
│ ├── keystore
│ ├── moonphase.db
│ └── tools
├── font
│ └── pirulen\ rg.ttf
└── temp
└── pirulen\ rg.ttf
18 directories, 15 files`
Any luck with the dev team giving us a real screenshot?
Here are 2 screen recordings. The first is adding a font to the Mac system. However, several version ago in GWD/GWS you install fonts directly. The second screen recording shows you this.
Hope these help
Ron
Samsung Developer Program
I guess I need to file a bug report. Repeated the exact steps. No longer works in either 1.8.1 nor 2.0.0 on Catalina 10.15.4
I bet it is the fonts then. To test it make a copy of one of the Samsung installed fonts and see if you can add them etc.
Ron
Samsung Developer Program
I believe you have won this argument 
That font (and all version of it on the net apparently) just don’t work. I tried another one and it just worked first time.
No sweat , only a week lost hahaha
Thanks for your patience.
Jacques
Hi Ron! I’m Guillermo from Faster watchfaces I have started to develop some faces and I have the same problem, I use the MacOS Catalina version!
I leave my video here so you can see that I follow the steps and it doesn’t work …
thanks for the great work you do!
Try adding the font to the \\Galaxy Watch Studio\font directory.
My understanding is that Windows TTFs work on both Windows and Mac but Mac TTF’s do not work on Windows. I am wondering since you aren’t alone if you have a Mac only TTF and that is an issue (bug).
One other thing to try… rename it .TTF no .ttf that was an old bug and it may have came back.
Ron
Samsung Developer Program
Hi Guillermo,
Let me cut to the chase:
Some fonts just don’t work on Mac version (in my case on Catalina). I couldn’t find the reason, but I had to resort to similar fonts from somewhere else to achieve my goal. I know it sucks!. The whole discussion about directories etc are a dead end.
Might be wrong place … but I had better luck with WatchMaker, although really complicated to use on Galaxy Watches. But it seems more robust and better tested. The designer works straight from the phone. Just can’t figure out how to switch from day to night mode
Jacques
Hello Jacques,
something similar happened to me,but on a Windows machine, i could add the font to GWS (2.0) but on the watch face nothing changed, although the newly added font was selected,
but to my surprise when I installed the watchface on my then GW46 the font appeared perfectly, just GWS did not show it at all.
I too cannot add certain fonts to GWS in MacOS Catalina. I have tried to add the font to the “Font” folder along with the standard that GWS comes with and install it in the system. Unfortunately no luck…
As far as i read, these problems are caused in Catalina. I hope with the upcoming update to MacOS 11, these problems will be solved!