> Use Font Mover to add fonts to the System file (for use in applications) and to remove fonts from the System file (to free up space on disk). In the early Macintosh System software fonts were data stored on the font file's resource fork and not actual files. It took a special Font Mover application to move them around. > It is a good idea to keep a backup copy of the System disk with Font Mover and all of the fonts. Have you ever tried to backup your system disk with only one 400k floppy drive and 128k of memory? A recipe for [Disk Swapper's Elbow](http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Disk_Swappers_Elbow.txt) if I ever heard one. > Fonts occupy a significant amount of disk space. Removing unneeded fonts, as well as the Font Mover, leaves more room for your documents. A touch balancing act when you only have a 400k floppy disk to work with. Most early Macintosh users kept their fonts on a separate disk and moved them around as needed. Just remember fonts with a * beside them are required by the system and cannot be removed. > If you want high quality printing, don't remove the doubled size of any fonts you want to print. For example, to print high quality documents in 9 point Geneva, be sure that 18 point Geneva is in the System file. This is because even the lowly ImageWriter dot matrix printer can print at twice the resolution of the original Macintosh display.