homebrew-cask-fonts for "All Users"

[jbaeck]

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Description of issue

Hi, is there a possibility to install fonts (cask) with homebrew that in a multi-user environment all fonts installed (e.g. by an admin account) are automatically available to all users ?

[aavanian]

Old question but I had the same issue today and found a solution.

brew install your-font --fontdir=/Library/Fonts/ works on OS X.
The man page also references it. I was looking to make it the default so putting this (without the --appdir argument) in your shell profile/config.

HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS

Append these options to all cask commands. All --*dir options, --language, --require-sha, --no-quarantine and --no-binaries are supported. For example, you might add something like the following to your ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zshenv:

export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--appdir=~/Applications --fontdir=/Library/Fonts"