There are a lot of "Compatability and support" fonts that are exactly that. I would respectfully disagree that the OS should be the gatekeeper for fonts. Ultimately the fonts don't even need to be off, just the ability to filter them out of the list in a way that does not sacrifice the favorites list. If it were handled in PS it could be solved with a warning dialog box when you go into a situation where it is on in one app and off in the other. Seems like the same problem you brought up, only worse because now it is at a system OS level. You would ask a user to go a remove system fonts to have them stop appearing in Photoshop and risk damaging their system or finding themselves in a circumstance when the system requires it and it is not there. Your very own example of what happens if a font is off in Photoshop and you need in AI in a smart layer works against you. I'm sorry but if you take your Adobe hat off that's a bunch of none sense. So that kind of puts a damper on your suggestion.Įven if this was still possible I do want to address the notion that you would be duplicating functionality and that this should be done at an OS level. The above screenshot is what happens when you attempt to delete the file. Moving it is also impossible. Some are kept in:Īnd the bulk of system fonts are kept in:Īnything in the first location can be removed, but nothing in the second location like our friend Apple Braille can be deleted: MacOS keeps non-user fonts in two places. Not being satisfied with that I then tried to do it the old fashioned way.
DISABLING FONTS MAC FONT BOOK MAC INSTALL
I even went as far as trying to install a third-party font management app (Font Explorer X Pro) and it also was unable to turn off system fonts. The option to do so is greyed out, see the attached screenshot below: Let me start by saying that in MacOS Mojave you can not disable system fonts in Font Book. To disable Lorem Ipsum, which was a user request (not all users want the same features, just as not all users use the application in the same way), go to Preferences > Type and uncheck Fill new type layers with placeholder text. People already complain that Photoshop is trying to do too many things beyond image editing - font management sure seems to fall into this category as well.
Font management needs to be applied uniformly across applications. To do the rest is actually quite a bit of work that wouldn't be useful to most users - and the interaction between apps can be a serious killer - what happens if you've disabled a font in PS but you use it in AI for a smart object in your PS layour.? No, Adobe used to have a font management app, but really, that is the domain of the OSes for a number of good reasons. So, given this limit and that you can mark the ones you like best as favorites, 90% of the problem is solved. Another reason it should be handled by the OS. In deed, disabling fonts is a GOOD THING as it reduces overhead for ALL your apps. And there isn't anything anyone can really do about it resources are finite, though lesser machines will slow down with fewer fonts. If you've got more than about 500 fonts, you're going to see system performance degrade. So again, the point of filtration should be the OS. Photoshop gives users access to MANY different kinds of fonts - which is why we try to work with any font, from any source on the OS. The fonts you are complaining about are included by the OS for compatibility and support. No reason to duplicate existing functionality. The functionality to disable fonts is available from the OS by default via Font Book. If you are seeing Apple Braille, then you're running on a Mac.
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