It took me a few queries to find the correct online solution for this problem: after adding a TrueType (and it’s extension: OpenType) font using the built-in MacOS Font Book, they do not show up in Pages or Preview, not even after validating the fonts in Font Book.
Solutions:
- reboot (found this out myself)
- killing the fontd font daemon from the Activity Monitor
- restart font daemon (found out via the link below)
launchctl kickstart -k gui/`id -u`/com.apple.xtyped
The last one does not work on my Apple Silicon machine, the first two work fine.
For Preview, you have to Force Quit it then start it (so it re-opens all the previous files) to take effect.
I needed this, because I
- very much like the Lucida font family and especially use Lucida Console a lot when filling out forms.
- need the KIX-code font often (it is as barcode font derived from RM4SCC)
- bought [Wayback/Archive] Brush Tip Terrence Font | dafont.com for stationery a long time ago and still use it
- occasionally use [Wayback/Archive] macfonts/Macintosh OS X/mac-icon-standard.ttf at master · JohnDDuncanIII/macfonts · GitHub (which I saved from the 30th Mac anniversary in 2014 – see links below) when documenting Classic Macintosh stuff
- often use the Myriad typeface that Apple supplied with the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh (see links below)
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 