How can I get other fonts not on list? When I updated operating system I lost some of my favorite fonts.

Here are the fonts that the operating system installs, but are not in the normal System font search, and will not appear in application font menus. They are located in /Library/Application Support/Apple/Fonts/iWork folder.

Were any of the fonts that you are now missing among the list above? If so, then follow approach 1 below to regain access to them from your applications. Approach 2 will make the entire folder available to application font menus.

There are two approaches to getting these to appear in your application font menus:

1. Drag and drop the specific font into your local Fonts folder.
   1. Click on your Desktop to make the Finder frontmost, and then press shift+command+G to open the Go To Folder panel. Copy and paste the bold path from above (ending in iWork) into the dialog, and press Go.
   2. Locate the font(s) that you want, and right-click to select the copy clause from the secondary menu.
   3. Press shift+command+G and copy/paste the following path into the dialog.

      ~/Library/Fonts

   4. Within your local library fonts folder, right-click, and select Paste to transfer the selected fonts. These are now available to your application font menus.
2. Make the .../iWork folder in the first paragraph available to the Font Book application as a new Font Collection.
   1. Open Font Book
   2. In the lower left corner is a '+' symbol that will allow you to add a new unnamed Font Collection when clicked.
      1. Name the new Font Collection, iWork.
      2. Select the new iWork Font Collection icon.
         1. From the Font Book File menu, select Add Fonts…
         2. A File Chooser window will appear, and in the left column under Devices, select your computer name again.
            1. Double-click on the following icons:
               1. Boot drive (e.g. MacIntosh HD)
               2. Library
               3. Application Support
               4. Apple
               5. Fonts
            2. Single-click to select the iWork folder, and then click Open on the dialog.
            3. The fonts will be entered into the iWork Font Collection within Font Book through a validating progress bar panel. A second panel will appear indicating 53 minor problems, but just check the Select all fonts box. Click the Install Checked button.
            4. Any fonts that may be duplicated elsewhere on your machine will be initially set to Off, and once the iWork Font Collection is populated, it is available to all application font menus.

Tom,

The iDVD 7.1.2 updater has a bunch of fonts within the iDVD.app package : Resources : Font folder. Cracked.dfont is among them, along with several that are not installed by the operating system proper.

I used Pacifist to open the .dmg. From there, one can extract just the Cracked.dfont (I prefer the ~/Library/Fonts folder), and then it will appear on application font menus. Here are the fonts in that iDVD updater:

Fonts are not contained in your books or in your pages app. They are part of the OS. If you are missing some fonts, then you need to get copies of them and reinstall them on your current machine. What are the names of the fonts that appear to be gone?

No. Don't install that Apple iDVD 7.1.2 update. For simplicity, you would be better off getting the Cracked font from the link that Tom provided you earlier.

Pacifist is a third-party application that allows one to look inside installers, extract internal content, and even install from the installer. It would be too difficult to explain how to use it to extract that Cracked font out of the Apple iDVD 7.1.2 updater.

By default, Apple did not install the Cracked font in OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.5, or 10.8.5, and it is reasonable to assume it was not installed in subsequent releases of the operating system.

First check the list in Format > Font > Show Fonts. It may have them ok even if the other Pages font menu does not.

cherylfromblaine wrote:

Are the fonts available through Apple or do I need to get through another site.

Hard to say without knowing the names of the fonts you are talking about.

cherylfromblaine wrote:

I am looking for one called Cracked.

There's a link to one in one of the posts here:

Missing Cracked Font? | MacRumors Forums

Why not just down it from the link in the url I gave you?