

The file keeps track of Font Book's general preferences and activated fonts, whether as a standard or library collection. .plist keeps track of deactivated fonts. Open the Preferences folder in your user account and put the following two files in the trash. Then, even if you aren't using Font Book, it will fight to keep any fonts open or disabled it thinks should be no matter what you're doing with another font manager.ĭo these steps in the order listed to reset Font Book.ġ) Quit Font Book. These, in part, keep track of what fonts are active. Just launching Font Book causes it to create hidden system files and. You should also never have more than one font manager on your Mac at a time. Either the OS upgrade is damaged, or, as often happens (we see it a lot on these forums), fonts go wacky because underlying Font Book databases and caches get damaged during the upgrade process. We're talking about a font manager here, not Photoshop.įonts can't just "stop working". And it sure isn't worth $84 a year as a subscription app. It's incredibly slow now, and actually unstable if you give it too many fonts to handle. I wouldn't pay a nickel for Suitcase Fusion.

I have Catalina installed on 2018 Mini and have no issues of any kind with fonts, InDesign, Quark XPress or any of the usual array of apps used in prepress. Clearly, something is seriously wrong on your Macs.
