Remove Noto, STIX & foreign System Fonts from ADOBE apps

This gets worse with every OS, and frankly is a straight-up slap in the face of all creatives and Adobe users—who are, ostensibly the core of the Apple user base. Beyond unacceptable.

Get it together, Apple. This is ridiculous.

That's just backwards. A very last solution I'd attempt. I rely greatly on my 'favorite font' star. The fact that this cannot be addressed, is simply ridiculous. Apple's incompetent approach to this apparent issue, is mind boggling.

Joel,

You are a genius! THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Kevin

Thank you for posting that link. In it Kurt Lang provided an extensive explanation of proper font management. I have just glanced over it, but I will read all of it in detail when I have time. Kurt explains the specific reasons for keeping the Apple fonts, and I have no argument with him. He clearly knows what he is talking about and I suggest that everyone reads his material. (I saved it as a PDF.) That said, I still see no reason for keeping those many foreign fonts in my computer, since they will never be used or displayed by me in my daily work. I am not making any recommendation for anyone else, but for me personally, I will leave all such foreign fonts removed. There are so many of them to have to wade through. I suspect that in doing the font removals I mentioned above, I likely removed some other Apple fonts, but so far I have not noticed any issues. If some do come up, they can be reinstalled using the methods Kurt describes. This has been a very interesting discussion for me.

Thanks Joel, for the great advice. I had no idea you could do that in the Character menu. Tis a brilliant solution.

I understand your frustration. In the alternative, if you, or someone else, wishes to actually get rid of unwanted fonts (including those Apple installed fonts) you can do so. You are perfectly safe in starting up your computer from an alternative OS source and merely deleating those unwanted fonts by dragging them directly from the Fonts folder in your HD to the trash. There is not other way to delete them. I have done this and it caused no problems.

I mention this because I am not an Adobe user, so I can not use your solution, but I still was overwhelmed by all those unwanted fonts. Thanks for sharing your solution. I'm sure people will benefit from it.

Wow, thank you so much for this workaround! Catalina is really starting to irritate the feck out of me and, if I thought it would do any good, I'd tell Apple to stop Microsofting me with their updates but, well, that whole listening thing... *sigh*

And the suggested solution from the monitors here - sorry, no, I have a few minutes to check my fave fonts, within Adobe but I don't have the time to learn how to figure out their IT solutions. That's a hard no.

Ok, off my soapbox. Again, thanks for this, Joel; simple, if a little tedious, but I'll take it!

Sara

Now this is a great workaround. Thanks so much, Joel.

I also never favorited fonts either, using Fontexplorer to (de-)activate my choice of fonts.

The foreign fonts annoyed me too, but at least they were on the bottom and thus easily ignorable.

This is an excellent way to shorten the list to fonts you actually are using.

Donald Beekman

You are correct. There is a minimum set of fonts that shouldn't be removed. See this link…

http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

Thank you Joel Pro! You are saving time for me and eliminating frustration!

Chuck H

Superb! Thank You so much!!!

Irisz