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Can I disable or remove system fonts?

Font Book won't let me disable a ton of typefaces that I have no need for. Avenir is the worst offender with 36 variants that I have to scroll through on every font menu I use. Then there's Arial Hebrew and Arial Hebrew Scholar which I will never use (Hebrew language support has been disabled). There are also a bunch of Asian fonts (Heiti, Hiragino, Kohinoor) that I don't need.


At the bottom of the font list, there are a dozen typefaces whose names all start with STIX that are disabled in Font Book, but that still show up in the font menus for Office. Not sure if that is an Office problem or a problem with Font Book.


Can I safely remove any of these fonts? Maybe just get rid of some of the variations? Like the Black and Heavy versions of Avenir?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Nov 24, 2014 9:16 PM

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Aug 26, 2017 1:20 PM in response to GabrielHaze

Is it possible there is another link to an author who doesn't spend his time writing a Bible? Most people just want a numbered step by step, easy to understand process. It's overwhelming just trying to get through the first few paragraphs.

It isn't easy because Apple keeps changing not only what fonts the OS uses as the most important, but Apple's supplied apps also keep changing by what other fonts need to be enabled in order for all the apps to work.


You don't need to read the article from top to bottom, just section one. Pick the OS you're on and read only that part. You do need to reference other OS releases when they cross-over information. Such as disabling System Integrity Protection so you can delete OS installed fonts. I had no desire to rewrite the same information about that for Sierra when all I had to say was, "See how to disable SIP under El Capitan".


There's a dividing line in section one after the list for 10.3. Everything above that line is for the System folder by OS release. The information below that line (still section 1), is for the Library folder. You can see there that Apple loved moving Marker Felt and Apple Gothic from one folder to the other.


Yes, it's busy article, but there isn't a simple way to write it when each OS has different required fonts.

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Nov 25, 2014 7:21 PM in response to Daddy D

Tom -- I couldn't get your post to display, so I'm replying to myself after marking your answer as solving my question.


I had found that item before posting my question, but I wanted to check here to see if the experts had a different view.


Thanks again.

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Can I disable or remove system fonts?

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