Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TTC file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TTC to another file type
To convert TTC font collections to another format, you need Apple Font Book or other Font software.
Convert a file to TTC
To convert other file formats to the "Font Collection Archive" file type, you need software like Apple Font Book or a similar tool.
About TTC files
The .TTC file extension primarily represents a TrueType Collection file. It is a container that bundles multiple fonts together into a single file. This format is heavily used by macOS and Windows to save disk space by allowing multiple fonts (like regular, bold, and italic variants) to share common glyph outlines. You can open and install these files using standard operating system utilities like Apple Font Book or the Windows Font Viewer. For editing or advanced extraction, professionals use FontForge. You can learn more about the underlying technology on the TrueType Wikipedia page. The main disadvantage of the .TTC format is poor software compatibility outside of desktop operating systems. Many web browsers, older graphic design applications, and CSS @font-face rules do not support font collections natively. Users often face invalid format errors when trying to upload a .TTC file to web-based design tools, as these platforms expect individual font files and cannot process the collection container. To resolve these compatibility issues, you should convert or split the .TTC file into individual TTF (TrueType Font) or OTF (OpenType Font) files. If you are building a website, converting the extracted fonts to WOFF or WOFF2 is highly recommended for optimal load times. Since this process merely extracts the existing vector data, no quality is lost. Handling font collections is technically difficult because it requires parsing the internal table directories to separate the shared glyphs accurately. Standard online converters often fail to process these tables. We can inspect the internal content, and if our analysis detects a supported format - or even the rare GZIP compressed TigerTrade configuration file that also uses the .TTC extension - viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TTC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TTC file to TTF, WOFF, WOFF2, OTF, EOT, SVG, BDF, PCF, FNT, FON, PFM or AFM, you can use Apple Font Book or similar software from the "Font Collection Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert UFO, WOFF, PFB, GXF, AFM, F3F, SFD, WOFF2, PSF, TTF, TXF or OTF files to TTC, try Apple Font Book or another comparable tool in the "Font Collection Storage" category.
The TTC Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TTC converter.