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I get an illegal font name error trying to use an AAT (or OpenType) font; whats wrong?

April 26, 2017AAT Error font illegal opentype wrong

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I get an illegal font name error trying to use an AAT (or OpenType) font; whats wrong?

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This error comes from the mktextfm tool when it is asked to build a .tfm file for a font, but the font name includes characters such as space. Generally, this means that the name you specified in the \font command does not exactly match the name of the font installed in Mac OS X; therefore, xetex didn’t find the installed font, and tried to use a .tfm instead. To check the name of a font, look in Font Book to see what name is displayed under the sample text, when you select the font family and face you’re trying to use. For example, the Regular face of Times is called “Times Roman”, whereas the Regular face of Palatino is simply “Palatino”. So asking for “Palatino Roman” will lead to an illegal font name error.