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Font Book fonts missing

I am working on a macbookpro OS 12.2.1.


I live in Japan and work in both English and Japanese. To that end I use both Western and Japanese fonts. The Japanese fonts typically have names written in Japanese. When I look in my Font Book, however, all the names are written in roman letters. There are no "international" font names at all.


All of my softwares (Word, Excel, Mail, Illustrator, etc) can use all the Japanese fonts in my computer, but Font Book does not show those fonts.


How can it be that there are fonts in my computer that I use all the time, which do not show up in Font Book?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Mar 9, 2022 4:47 PM

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Mar 10, 2022 4:14 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the tips Tom.


As you can see in the attached images, both MS Word and Illustrator show a font available for use called Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro (ヒラギノ角ゴPro). W3 is regular font and W6 is bold.


However, Font Book, does not show Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro at all. How can it be available for use in software such as Illustrator and Word, but not show up in the Font Book?


Marc




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Mar 10, 2022 4:03 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

As in the attached screenshot of Find Any File, the TTS font files were in System > Library > Fonts. There are also associated ATSD files in System > Library > Frameworks > ............ Not sure what these are for. I think the TTS files are all I need to send to a 3rd party to use in AI.


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Mar 9, 2022 8:40 PM in response to mpk-apple

Can you provide the name of one of those fonts you can't see in Font Book.


On my (Catallina) machine. all Japanese fonts have Latin names in Font Book. Apple's primary Japanese font is listed as Hiragino. If you do View > Show Font Info, you will see it's file name shown as ヒラギノ角ゴシック


Go to Font Book > File > New Smart Collection and make a collection with Languages Include Japanese to see all the fonts which have Japanese characters (which includes a lot of Chinese/Korean fonts).



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Mar 10, 2022 5:00 AM in response to mpk-apple

Did you try scrolling down to the bottom? That is not a system font. The built-in fonts are a bit strange that the actual file name is in Japanese but the font name is in English. Perhaps in your fonts, the font name is in Japanese too. They might be at the bottom of the list.

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Mar 10, 2022 1:44 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I have created a file in Adobe Illustrator using a font that Illustrator shows as available but Font Book does not. Now I need to send that font to a 3rd party so they can use the AI file I made. I had hoped to export the font via Font Book. If that is not possible, where will I find the font called Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro (ヒラギノ角ゴPro)?


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