. Fonts—and Font Book Mac OS X delivers type that is all smooth, all the time. Fonts in Mac OS X's formats— called TrueType, PostScript Type 1, and OpenType—always look smooth onscreen and in printouts | . Fonts and Font Book Mac OS X delivers type that is all smooth all the time. Fonts in Mac OS X s formats called TrueType PostScript Type 1 and OpenType always look smooth onscreen and in printouts no matter what the point size. Mac OS X also comes with a program that s just for installing removing inspecting and organizing fonts. It s called Font Book Figure 14-11 it s in your Applications folder and it s been much improved in Leopard. Figure 14-11. Each account holder can have a separate set of fonts your set is represented by the User icon. You can drag fonts and font families between the various Fonts folders represented here from your User account folder to the Computer icon for example making it available to all account holders. . Where Fonts Live Brace yourself. In Mac OS X there are three Fonts folders. The fonts you actually see listed in the Fonts menus and Font panels of your programs are combinations of these Fonts folders contents. They include Your private fonts your Home folder Library Fonts . This Fonts folder sits right inside your own Home folder. You re free to add your own custom fonts to this folder. Go wild it s your font collection and yours alone. Nobody else who uses the Mac can use these fonts they ll never even know that you have them. Main font collection Library Fonts . Any fonts in this folder are available to everyone to use in every program. As with most features that affect everybody who shares your Macintosh however only people with Administrator accounts can change the contents of this folder. Essential system fonts System Library Fonts . This folder contains the 35 fonts that the Mac itself needs the typefaces you see in your menus dialog boxes icons and so on. You can open this folder to see these font suitcases but you can t do anything with them such as opening moving or adding to them. Remember that for stability reasons the System folder is sealed under glass forever. Only the superuser Section can touch .
