Where are font preferences kept?

I have this weird situation with the font window, the one you bring up in TextEdit when you select "Show fonts". The window that comes up as many invisible entries in my Favorites window. That is, about 5 lines show fonts I have saved as to size and color, etc. However below that are about 10 lines of nothing visible, yet if I have text selected and and click on those empty lines then it formats the text. Obviously there is something wrong since the font name and formatting does not show.
I have tried to find out to reset this by looking for the preferences files that holds my settings but cannot find it.
Does anybody know where it is?
Thanks,
Richard

Hi, Richard.
The preference file that contains your font Favorites, as displayed in the Font palette (the "font window" you cited), is the file
com.apple.Favorites.collection
in your Home > Library > FontCollections folder. This folder also contains any font collections or libraries you've defined using Font Book.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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