There’s yet one more little gotcha to note. For an explanation in plain English of OS X folder path names, read the sidebar “A Word About Folder Terminology.” If you’re the only one using the computer, or everyone uses the same account on the Mac, then it doesn’t matter. What it means, in a production environment where more than one user may work on a job on the same computer, is that you should think twice about putting job-specific fonts in your own personal Fonts folder (that’s the one under /Users//Library/Fonts). This is as it should be in a multi-user system such as Mac OS X, but it does add to the number of folders to worry about. Consider this: Each user has his or her own fonts folder. In my first “Font Fatigue” column, I identified six font locations in Mac OS X.
