Font Book in Snow Leopard has a collection called "User" that lists the fonts in ~/Library/Fonts.
While Mountain Lion lets you install fonts in ~/Library/Fonts, Font Book doesn't display them.
Have others seen this? Determined a solution?
(I know that the ~/Library directory is hidden by default in Mountain Lion. I unhid it, but that didn't fix the Font Book problem.)
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Antonio Cavedoni, who spoke at the last TypeCon and is one of Apple's font guys, seems to be pretty accessible. I tweeted about a bug in TextEdit on Lion and got an email from him right away, and was able to get info to him to help fix the bug.
Have you tried starting Font Book from a different account on that machine?
All I know is that every time the OS is upgraded it drives me up the fucking wall, and I lose functionality every time, so that it takes me longer to do simple things now than in the past.
I've had this latest OS for almost a year now and I still haven't figured out how to do a simple search. I'd like to search for "Fonts" and have a list of folders named "Fonts" show up.
How do you install your fonts? In any event, don't drag them into ~/Library/Fonts/. Simply open them with Font Book instead.
Interestingly, I didn't have to change my user directory, which was listed as /Users/mb already. This is weird because unix systems are usually picky about case correctness. But indeed, the OS X filesystem is both case-insensitive and case-preserving:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/22297/is-bash-in-osx-case-insensitive
That means that if you name a folder /Users/mb, you can refer to it as /users/MB, or /USERS/mB, etc.
Still, I'll blame Font Book for this problem, since it apparently requires case accuracy where the filesystem does not.