Why won't new purchased OTF fonts install in Catalina?

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Why won't new purchased OTF fonts install in Catalina?

I am running Mac Catalina (10.5.1) on my late-2013 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 iMac. I recently purchased a suite of .otf fonts from MyFont. No matter how I try, I cannot install them. I am an administrator so it doesn't appear to be a permissions issue. I get as far as validating and installing the fonts (it looks like I have been successful) but they haven't installed and don't appear in any search in Font Book. Any thoughts?

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 13, 2019 2:35 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 13, 2019 4:27 AM in response to Masrop

Masrop wrote:

No matter how I try, I cannot install them.

Just drag/drop them into Home/Library/Fonts and restart and see if that helps.

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 14, 2019 4:20 AM in response to Masrop

Masrop wrote:

I had a breakthrough.

Thanks, interesting! Do you also have copies of the new fonts in Home/Library/Fonts so they are in two places? Do you see them all in the Apple apps TextEdit and Pages?

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 13, 2019 3:28 PM in response to Masrop

Could you post a screen shot of your home/library/fonts folder?

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Masrop Author

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Nov 13, 2019 3:05 PM in response to VikingOSX

I've tried that and no luck. When I look for the font it is not there. The font loads correctly on another computer in High Sierra. On my computer, I've loaded another .ttf and had no issue. Any other thoughts?

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VikingOSX

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Nov 13, 2019 5:04 AM in response to Masrop

Tom's recommendation because the operating system has been isolated on read-only storage.

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Masrop Author

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Nov 14, 2019 2:24 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Here it is. Hope it's helpful

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Masrop Author

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Nov 14, 2019 1:46 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

No, I don't see copies of the new fonts in Home/Library/Fonts. But I do see all the fonts in Pages, Numbers and TextEdit.

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Masrop Author

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Nov 14, 2019 2:50 AM in response to Masrop

I had a breakthrough. My partner suggested right-clicking on a existing font in Font Book to find out where this font was located. When I did that, it pointed me to my HD Folder/Library/Fonts. I tried dragging and dropping another font into this Font location and the font loaded successfully. I then dragged and dropped all 6 of the new purchased fonts into this location, restarted my computer, and all the fonts appeared to have installed successfully. They installed successfully in Photoshop, but only some appear in MS Word.

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Why won't new purchased OTF fonts install in Catalina?

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