![]() The name of the folder itself tells you they're optional and not needed by the OS itself. It has never made sense the user couldn't at least disable the fonts in the Supplemental folder. Back to Devanagari, then back to English again. Not without constantly changing your language in the System Preferences to make xxx visible for the moment, then back to English. Need foreign fonts to work on a client project? Too bad. If every developer did follow Apple's lead, the Mac would instantly become useless to the entire publishing industry. Font Book has always been a mediocre font manager at best. Which of course makes them impossible to manage. This makes Font Book equally useless since, even though it is a font manager, it doesn't show you many of the fonts the OS installs. Having to do this individually in every single app that displays a font list is unnecessary and just plain illogical. There's no reason in the world why the user shouldn't be able to control which fonts are active in one place, like we have for decades. As you and almost every one else knows, this is what we have a font manager for. Forcing each and every developer to simply do what Apple does and hide all fonts not related to your region is a waste of their time.The suggestion you keep seeing about using the APIs available to developers is true. Too many to count, it takes four scrolls of the mouse wheel just to get past this annoying list from just the ONE font. My creative programs are stuffed full of fonts that get in the way of me selecting and using the type sets I have carefully curated and need to work with. Please allow us, the designers, the creatives, the mavericks the dreamers to choose what fonts we want to work with. Useless fonts, in the way, clogging the design process. Please feel free to copy, paste, edit send. From everything I have read so far there are only limited answers for us here on this forum.īelow is my support request. Been able to control this for 20+ years but now, gads. I use some really elegant font management software to slice and dice my way through a massive font collection but Noto font and other totally useless fonts clog up the menus. Big Sur How to gain control over fonts in Big Sur?īig Sur has made this important task really hard. I admit there needs to be controls but this is 'my' Mac and I want to be able to run it how I see fit and so it is working efficiently.ĭelete or hide Noto and other unnecessary fonts. Ĭome on Apple, you used to make user-friendly products a child could operate, now you're becoming more bloated than the dreaded Windoze machines. I will refer to Kurt Lang's article here as he's much more experienced than me but even he has thrown his hands up over this. Plus it's become extremely slow (sometimes 7mins to start up!!) I might downgrade back to Mojave and live with that until Apple sort this out. I used to be able to admin the system fine up until this insidious OS. The 'tools of my trade' are now a hinderance. I have paid good money to manage fonts previously, at work, within my business and now am stuck.Īs a graphic designer with 1000s of fonts to manage, I am starting to lose the will to live as there seems to be no way now of administering my 'own property' to do what I want it to. Seems event the best 3rd party apps are a waste of time now due to this latest OS. I have searched high and low on the internet for solutions and for a decent way of managing fonts like I used to, like with Font Explorer, but to no avail. ![]() all the Noto Sans fonts and Arabic, Chinese fonts etc. Html *:not(.fa):not(.far):not(.fas):not(.fal):not(.In Big Sur, how can I disable the long list of annoying, unwanted fonts in my Adobe Apps? i.e.
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