Comments on: Using the Font Book

By: privacy protection virus

privacy protection virus — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:53:00 +0000

I also like to try all kinds of fonts. It’s quite interesting!

By: Brent Spore

Brent Spore — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:57:00 +0000

If they are in your fontbook, they should show up in Word. Try quitting Word (CMD+Q) and relaunching it.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:47:00 +0000

How do you add the fonts to word?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:58:29 +0000

Quick question. I had installed a font and later decided that I didn’t need it. So I disabled and removed it from Font Book. Yet it one of my word processing programs (Mellel) the font is still listed in brackets in my fonts list. Any ideas? Is this a font book issue or likely a problem with the program?

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:26:27 +0000

Thanks hugo, good tip!

Aditya, I didn’t even explore the font server functions in suitcase, man I feel left out. Gonna go play with it right now. Thanks!

By: Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:13:41 +0000

I was searching for a good font management software and suitcase fit the bill. Suitcase over Font Explorer – just because of the font server. i use multiple machines around at home and office. Having the server just makes life so much easier.

But I believe a standard alone font explorer would suffice in most cases.

By: hugo

hugo — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:04:36 +0000

just as a friendly warning – be careful when using Font Book, i’ve had so many problems with it in the past (and i’m not alone, just google it..) which crashed my mac a lot.

I have now switched to Font Explorer and I love it.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:14:47 +0000

I agree… Font Explorer X does look like a very nice piece of software. Being a designer by trade, I have discovered Suitcase Fusion but in my early Mac days (really, only 2 months ago). Font Book was the ticket. Thanks Jon for the link!

By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:03:12 +0000

I’m a graphic designer who owns a Macbook Pro. Sadly, I made the mistake of deleting some system fonts because my Illustrator kept crashing while it tried to startup, due to corrupt fonts. When I went to reboot my machine, nada. After hours of research, I was able to MacGyver It. I found this solution, called Target Disk Mode. (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583) This will allow you to have a second Mac be read as a hardrive. Luckily I was able to borrow my boss’s Macbook connect my laptop via firewire and use his laptop to move the my font files around.

By: jon deal

jon deal — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:43:00 +0000

Font Book is great for starting out. But what you *really* need is a *real* font management program.

Like FontExplorer!

http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX?

Does all that crazy organizing and has all the bells and whistles you want for font management. Plus it has plug-ins for InDesign, Illustrator, etc. so the fonts are auto-magically opened if necessary.

Best of all. It’s free! And no, I don’t work for them. :-]