Is there anyway to use only particular Fontbook fonts for all mac apps?

[shankar2]

So I made a collection of English fonts (only). I want this collection to be used by my Mac running High Sierra.

Is there any way to force the mac apps to use a particular fontbook collection? Thanks!

 

[dianeoforegon]

If you use a font that the recipient does not have on their Mac, it will substitute a font as a replacement. Only use fonts that all users will have if you want your text to look as you created.

 

[casperes1996]

If you use a font that the recipient does not have on their Mac, it will substitute a font as a replacement. Only use fonts that all users will have if you want your text to look as you created.

That's an answer to a question that wasn't asked

 

[jahala]

So I made a collection of English fonts (only). I want this collection to be used by my Mac running High Sierra.

Is there any way to force the mac apps to use a particular fontbook collection? Thanks!

You could use Font Book to disable all the fonts that are outside of the collection. That will prevent all programs from using them. It won't affect the system font that is used for the menu bar and other controls. It also will not prevent applications from showing text in foreign languages because many of the English language fonts support many other languages as well.

What are you trying to accomplish by limiting the fonts available to applications?

 

[shankar2]

You could use Font Book to disable all the fonts that are outside of the collection. That will prevent all programs from using them. It won't affect the system font that is used for the menu bar and other controls. It also will not prevent applications from showing text in foreign languages because many of the English language fonts support many other languages as well.

What are you trying to accomplish by limiting the fonts available to applications?

How do I force fontbook to disable fonts outside a collection? Steps?

I’m trying to speed up word 2016 launch

 

[jahala]

I’m trying to speed up word 2016 launch

Good thing I asked.

Font Book is not the whole answer with Office 2016 applications. Word has its own set of fonts within the application Contents folder. Excel has its own set as do PowerPoint and Outlook. I learned this while investigating why I could use Calibri in mail in Outlook but not in Apple Mail.

As for disabling all fonts outside a collection in Font Book, the easiest way is to disable all fonts entirely, then select the collection and enable all the fonts within it.

I am not sure what you will need to do restrict the available fonts on Word. It might be as easy as deleting all the fonts inside the app, but you run the risk of the app no longer launching because that will invalidate the digital signature that lets the OS know that the application is safe

Actually, any change you make to the Word application will invalidate the digital signature.

Still, I think you should try whatever you feel might make a difference. That is how you learn

Just remember to make a copy of the Word application before you start deleting files or moving them somewhere else