Also, in a desperate move in Font Book I clicked in Restore Standard Fonts under the File menu and told me I needed to reinstall the OS because of some random problem I was just about to boot from the Recovery disk when I gave it another chance and found this. Adobe Fonts partners with the world’s leading type foundries to bring thousands of beautiful fonts to designers every day. I'm running 10.8.2 Server, before Mountain Lion I didn't have these issues. So I dragged it to the all users Font folder and before opening Font Book again, I just opened the file directly from the Font folder and this time it did install the font.

So I looked into the user Fonts folder and saw the font file was indeed there it just wasn't read by Font Book or any application. 'Install Font' would summon Font Book but the Font wasn't there, it just looked like it made the effort to install it. I didn't install them, nor by clicking on Font Book.

I kept opening fonts just by double clicking the file and then clicking on install. This includes installing, uninstalling, viewing, as well as organizing them. I read all of your answers and, looking for a solution myself, I think I just accidentally came up with one. If you collect fonts, or plan to, its a good idea to have a system in place to organize them. Step 1: Installing Fonts With Font Book Step 2: Screenshot of Font Book on macOS Step 3: the Font Book is an application that comes with the Mac and this app simplifies the process of managing your fonts.

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