Adding font to illustrator from fontbook.

[JoeTheBurger]

I was wondering if someone knew how to add a font from the fontbook on mac to illustrator. Ive been watching videos and still nothing on how to do it. If someone can help me out with this question that would be great.

[Monika Gause]

If you activate it in Fontbook it should be available in Illustrator automatically. If it isn't that is a sign that the font is not working.

Which font is it?

[JoeTheBurger]

Its the manzipen sc font.

and it dosent not pop up in illustrator even thought its in my fontbook.

[Monika Gause]

Is that a freefont?

Illustrator will only work with quality fonts. Not saying that a freefont isn't a quality font, but many of them just have issues.

[Mike_Gondek]

You are either having technical/font cache issues, or possibly the font name is slightly different but falling in an entirely different place in the font menu. Sounds like a foreign character font, can you please tell us something more about this font.

Reset your font cache

https://www.jamapi.com/products/fontnuke/

Restart your computer

If you still need help can we see a screenshot of your Manzipen in font book?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi Joe,

I would like to know if the steps suggested above worked for you, or the issue still persists.

Kindly update the discussion if you need further assistance with it.

Thanks,

Srishti

[debbier60954808]

Hi all these notes are very old but I am having the same problem. Fonts in font book are not activating in Illustrator. How do I get them to show or empty the font cache please.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Maybe this can help you: installed fonts (mac Default font) in my Font Book doesn't show up in photoshop CC

[KShinabery212]

This one reason I like PCs better than Macs. 

When I was using Macs, I found it better to use a Font Manager application versus using Fontbook.  Fontbook is the worst.

Suitcase Fusion

I was using the old version of Suitecase and it was great.  I could turn fonts on and fonts off easily.  Also it can handle thousands and thousands of fonts.  I think on my Mac I had 7000 fonts or so.

The version I had allowed me to set up folders and organize fonts however I wanted.  So I could set up a folder for Old West Style fonts, Asian style fonts, thin line fonts, etc.  What ever I wanted.  Then I could easily find the fonts I wanted to 'activate'.  And if I did not want them activated I simply could deactivate them.

Totally recommend trying out a Font Manager.  I am not sure what the best one is now.... but it is worth looking into.  Fontbook might have gotten better, but I think you will find a Font Manager application better to work with!  And there are some good free ones out there.

[Jeff_Extensis]

Adding fonts to FontBook essentially adds them to your system fonts. Once added in Fontbook they should be active by default. You can simply check this by opening FontBook and see if the font is shown in Black or Gray. Black means the font is active. Gray means the font is not active. If the font is Gray, you can simply select the font and then check the box at the top of the column to activate the font.

To simply check to see if the font is active and working, open TextEdit and see if the font appears in the menu. If yes, then it should appear in your Adobe application. If it appears in other applications and not your Adobe application, you may need to clear your font cache.

[Tim907]

Apparently, sometimes fonts get classified as non-english, even when they are. I could see several new fonts in Font Book and Text Edit, but I couldn't find them in illustrator because I had somehow turned on english fonts only. I cleared the filter in the character panel and then they showed up for me.