Installing fonts into font book

I'm having a problem installing some fonts into Font book. I've got he fonts on my desktop, when I double click them, Font book opens them up. When I then click "install font", nothing happens. I've changed the destination via preferences in Font book (default install location). Still nothing. Something interesting though, it looks like somethings happening when I click install. The Font book window kind of blinks, then "Baskerville is selected. But no new fonts.

I'm having the same issue trying to install an .otf font, which the article says I should be able to install and the font company hasn't had any trouble with in the past. Any other ideas?

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