font folder, where is it?

[BeatriceC]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I checked ~library, system/library, /library, applications, and Documents and I cannot find that folder. I want to copy a few fonts so that other applications can use them. Is that possible?? Thanks.

Bea

 

[John McGhie]

Mac OS X maintains a set of three font folders, two are shared, one private
to each login.

If you want to make a font available to all applications and all users, put
it in /Library/Fonts

Your personal font folder will be in /Users/<your login name>/Library/Fonts

I keep nothing in there, because anything in there can be used only by my
login.

The fonts needed for the system to run are in /System/Library/Fonts. It is
not a good idea to change anything in that folder (and normally, OS X won't
let you!)

If you can't see those folders, set your Finder options to show hidden
files. If you still can't see them, your login is not high enough: you need
to be an administrator on the local machine to play with fonts.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I checked ~library, system/library, /library, applications, and Documents and
I cannot find that folder. I want to copy a few fonts so that other
applications can use them. Is that possible?? Thanks.

Bea

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[BeatriceC]

Thanks for responding. I am an adminstrator. What I can't find are the WORD fonts, in particular, Calibri. I did not see that font in any of the FONT folders.

Where does WORD store their fonts? Once I find that font, I will put it in ~library/fonts.

 

[Diane Ross]

I checked ~library, system/library, /library, applications, and
Documents and I cannot find that folder. I want to copy a few fonts so
that other applications can use them. Is that possible?? Thanks.

Office 2008 stores it's fonts in the Library/Fonts/Microsoft folder.
The fonts are available for all users and applications. I do not advise
you move them to another location.

Microsoft fonts to delete after installing Snow Leopard (includes help
deleting font caches)

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/remove_fonts_snowleopard.html>