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Originally Posted by rem736
it's been a while since i opened up my mac, but i think there's a similar folder on the mac system as well.
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There are two locations:
/Library/Fonts
/System/Library/Fonts
But I would start in Font Book app to preview and explore. The font family or font context menu has Show in Finder to take you to the correct location, and you can also see what languages/scripts are supported, see the Repertoire (the entire set of glyphs) create Collections (‘Good For Kindle’) etc.
Once you are in one of the Fonts folders, you’ll see .dfont, .ttf, .otf, and .ttc files.
.dfont (Datafork TrueType(R) font) do not work on Kindle. But .ttf, .otf, and conveniently, .ttc (TrueType collection) files all seem to work. You can use Quick Look here to preview here, but again, Font Book lets you explore and preview in more detail.
Ideally you want to have Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic - if there are more variants in the family, I’m not sure what Kindle does with them all, and fewer might mean certain text styles don’t get rendered, or maybe it applies some adjustment to the fonts it has that won’t look as good. It would be useful to know what the rules are, but I at least have not played enough yet.