NO fonts in Font folder?

Hi ALL,
It this normal?
Home_Folder>Library>Fonts folder
There are NO fonts in the Fonts Folder, it's completely empty. But in ALL my application or in the system everything is working.
Is Leopard different from Tiger how the NEW OSX system is handling Fonts.
Dimaxum

Yup, it's normal.
Fonts are more than likely in the /Library/Fonts folderand only those you've put in your home directory will be in there.

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