Of course, my thesis has to meet some requirements. One of these requirements (well, they say it is recommended) is that it had to use the Georgia and Verdana fonts for the first page. After trying to select the fonts with the help of google and trying out all kinds of commands that didn’t work I thought I didn’t have the fonts installed on my Mac. But after some more googling, I seemed to be wrong. I just have to use this snippet in my LaTeX file:
% the usual stuff
\usepackage{fontspec}
% at the beginning, or somewhere in the middle of your document
\setmainfont{Georgia}
text typeset in Georgia
\setmainfont{Verdana}
text typeset in Verdana