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's Font Book is a font manager that comes with Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 since version 10.3 (Panther).

The program enables users to:

• Preview and install font files, avoiding multiple instances of the same font.
• Review installed fonts using various sample texts and sizes.
• Group fonts into collections, which can then be used in all Cocoa
  Cocoa (API)
  Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface for the Mac OS X operating system and—along with the Cocoa Touch extension for gesture recognition and animation—for applications for the iOS operating system, used on Apple devices such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and...
  
   programs.
• Activate/deactivate individual fonts or collections.
• Check the data integrity of font files.
• Export font collections for use on another computer

New Fonts

A feature of Font Book is that users can download new fonts and install them. There are many sites in which this can be done. Once the new font is downloaded it can be loaded and used by Font Book.

Criticism

Apple's Font Book faced some criticism regarding an inability to validate and auto-activate fonts. These features were added to Font Book with the release of Mac OS X Leopard.

External links

• Apple's Font Book page