I purchased a font (Worstveld-Sling) and I'm trying to install it on my new M1 MBP. Nothing I've tried so far has helped, the fonts are greyed out in iCloud when I try to add them to the Font Book.... any suggestions??
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6
Since the System partition in Catalina/Big Sur/Monterey is read-only, you cannot install fonts as done prior to these operating systems. However, the Fonts folder in your /Users/username/Library/Fonts is also searchable by the operating system when locating fonts, and that is where you drag and drop the purchased font. Even if the font family is in a folder of its own, the operating system will find the fonts in that folder and make them available to application font menus.
In the Finder, press shift+cmd+G to open the Go To Folder dialog. Copy/paste the following into that dialog and click GO:
~/Library/Fonts
This will open a new Finder window on your local Fonts folder.
Here is an example of some of my font families residing in their own folders, but all fonts appear in Font Book and to my applications:
What does iCloud have to do with anything?
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It sounds like these font files are not in a format that is compatible with macOS.
It is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
1) Copy the the font to a location in your local drive.
2) Double-click to open in Font Book
3) Click Install
Installing a new font into Font BookBook...
