Font Book

Font Book is a Mac OS X utility that enables you to install, preview, search, activate, and deactivate fonts with an easy-to-use interface.

Font Book organizes all of your fonts into libraries and collections. Libraries, which appear above the split line in the Collection column, are groups of fonts organized by where they are installed. Collections, which appear below the split line, are groups of fonts organized to meet your needs. Font Book comes preconfigured with several libraries and collections, but you can add, remove, or modify others as desired.

Within each library or collection is one or more fonts, each of which may contain one or more typefaces. Each typeface is a slightly different version of the font—for example, bold, ...

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