Installing Metropolis Fonts

Installing Metropolis Fonts as a System Font

For optimal performance and to avoid plot dimension changes, we recommend installing Metropolis as a system font.

Either download the Metropolis font from https://fontsource.org/fonts/metropolis and install it using the standard OS tool. Alternatively, the font files are included in the MSUthemes package at inst/fonts/metropolis_5.1.0/. The following instructions should enable you to install Metropolis as a system font.

macOS

1. Locate the font files: In R, run system.file("fonts/metropolis_5.1.0", package = "MSUthemes") to find the directory
2. Open Finder and navigate to that directory
3. Select all .ttf files
4. Double-click any font file and click “Install Font” in Font Book
5. Restart R/RStudio/VS Code

Windows

1. Locate the font files: In R, run system.file("fonts/metropolis_5.1.0", package = "MSUthemes") to find the directory
2. Open File Explorer and navigate to that directory
3. Select all .ttf files
4. Right-click and select “Install” (or “Install for all users” if available)
5. Restart R/RStudio/VS Code

Linux

1. Locate the font files: In R, run system.file("fonts/metropolis_5.1.0", package = "MSUthemes") to find the directory

2. Copy the .ttf files to ~/.fonts/ (create the directory if it doesn’t exist):

   mkdir -p ~/.fonts
   cp /path/to/MSUthemes/fonts/metropolis_5.1.0/*.ttf ~/.fonts/
   fc-cache -fv

3. Restart R/RStudio/VS Code

If you don’t install Metropolis as a system font, the package will automatically use it via the showtext package, but this may cause slight changes to plot dimensions.