I admit it, I obsess about fonts.  I love fonts. I find every excuse I can to buy a new font. I believe that fonts are a critical aspect in turning a good-looking graphic into an eye-catching graphic, even (especially) if it's the banner to a website. I have purchased a lot of fonts over the years, and I was told at the Apple store that the fonts I purchased for the Windows OS were not going to work on my iMac. That seriously bummed me. With the tiniest hope I tried copying my font folder from Windows onto my new iMac, then adding them to my Font Book, but it didn't work.

There was one font I desperately wanted to use, so I tried again even though I knew it would be to no avail. This time I took my original file download and copied that onto my iMac. Note the difference - I didn't copy from the Windows Fonts folder, I copied the original .TTF file I had downloaded. I then added it to the Font Book (found in Applications), and it worked! I have since added numerous True Type Fonts and Open Type Fonts (OTF), and they've all worked so far, as long as I used the original download. Hooray!!!