How remove Catalina fonts so don't have to scroll through all 319?

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How remove Catalina fonts so don't have to scroll through all 319?

Font book only allows you to disable or remove some of the 319 fonts Catalina installs, and even after you do, they still appear in the list f fonts you must scroll through when trying to select a font in Word (which was th whole point of trying to remove them). It's absurd that you have no choice but to have 319 fonts installed that you cannot delete or hide, and makes actually using Word's capabilities onerous. Fonts in the system library fonts folder cannot be removed at all.

MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 8:38 AM

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leroydouglas

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Oct 26, 2020 9:05 AM in response to kriskaul

kriskaul wrote:

Fonts in the system library fonts folder cannot be removed at all.

What is the issue having these fonts?

From Font Book.app>File>Restore Standard Fonts

Font Book User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

please note: About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina - Apple ...

user fonts that you do have r/w privileges go here:

 ~/Library/Fonts

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Barney-15E

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Oct 26, 2020 9:21 AM in response to kriskaul

Contact the app developer. They should be providing that interface. See Pages for an example. It only shows the English language fonts to me. If I need one of the others, I can show the Font Panel and pick from all the rest.

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Oct 26, 2020 9:24 AM in response to leroydouglas

In Word, if you want to select a font, you must scroll through all 319 fonts to find the one you want. There is an entire page of Noto fonts, for example, that cannot be removed. Even after disabling them they show up in the list with a download symbol next to them - and the entire purpose of removing/disabling them was to shorten the font list to those I actually might want to use. If there are system fonts that cannot be removed for some reason then they should be hidable so users do not have to scroll through them all.

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How remove Catalina fonts so don't have to scroll through all 319?

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