Font Management on Snow Leopard

Today has been a most incredible day of learning about fonts, specifically, font management in the context of Snow Leopard.

Once upon a time, I thought it was cool to have fonts – so I gobbled them all up – every one that came my way and kept them on my computer. Not wanting to mix them with system fonts, user fonts, I put these guys in separate font folders. I once even had special software for font management. Then, as OSX developed, a new thing came along – Font Book. Good bye 3rd party software and hello font book. Well, somewhere along the way I changed computers, maybe once or twice. Moved all my fonts from here to there, and now, some 10 years along the road, I have found that my fonts have multiplied! (more…)