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These fonts are required by the Mac OS X operating system, and so users should not change the contents of this folder. A user with Admin rights can add or delete fonts in this folder.įonts in this folder are called system fonts, and are available to all users.

A user with Admin rights can add or delete fonts in this folder.įonts in this folder are called network fonts, and can be made available to all users on the network. This folder is part of the user’s Home, which can be on the local hard disk or elsewhere on the network.įonts in this folder are called local fonts, and are available to all users. Locationįonts in this folder are called user fonts, and are available only when "username" is logged in. When fonts with the same name occur in more than one location, the location that occurs first in the following table takes priority. Mac OS X 10 can access fonts from several locations.

Mac OS X 10 can also use Mac OS 9 Unicode fonts and Windows Unicode fonts. With Mac OS X 10, Apple has started to provide OpenType fonts (*.otf), and has introduced a new format, Data Fork Suitcase Fonts (*.dfont) that cannot be used on Mac OS 9. Prior to Mac OS X very few applications made use of the Unicode support provided by the operating system, but this situation looks set to change with Mac OS X 10 and there are several text editors and Web browsers that make good use of Unicode. The Macintosh operating system has included Unicode support since version 8.5, allowing applications to see and use characters in both Macintosh and Windows TrueType and OpenType fonts that are outside the 233 characters in the MacRoman character set.