So disappointing we can't disable fonts in system

[iBookmaster]

or remove them since I can't remember when this started. In Leopard and before I could delete lots of unwanted, especially foreign fonts I would never use. This gives us a bloated system. Also would be nice if we could download a USA only version of Mac OS to be less bloated. Does this bother anybody else?

 

[bogdanw]

Does this bother anybody else?

Very few
"macOS Debloating thread" https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-debloating-thread.2278758/

 

[iBookmaster]

Thanks for the link!

 

[Alameda]

or remove them since I can't remember when this started. In Leopard and before I could delete lots of unwanted, especially foreign fonts I would never use. This gives us a bloated system. Also would be nice if we could download a USA only version of Mac OS to be less bloated. Does this bother anybody else?

Yes! This is infuriating!
Ok.... maybe some day I'll get a document written in Swahili or Burmese, and it will be great if the fonts render. But I don't need to see these fonts in the menu of every app I use!

This is mind-numblingly dumb! If I open a doc in MS Word and try to set a font, there's Apple Braille... SIX TIMES. What? Supporting visually impaired users is great and all, but I'm not ALLOWED to hide this from my font menu cause some political correctness police force will take my computer away? When did this become a thing? The Apple apps like Keynote are a little better, because I can create a "Favorites," but I just really don't need to deal with all of these Asian scripts that I'll definitely never use. I wrote to Microsoft about this as well.

Apple used to be the computer "for the rest of us," which focused on ease of use, but their font menus are not easy to use at all.

 

[iBookmaster]

Yes! This is infuriating!
Ok.... maybe some day I'll get a document written in Swahili or Burmese, and it will be great if the fonts render. But I don't need to see these fonts in the menu of every app I use!

This is mind-numblingly dumb! If I open a doc in MS Word and try to set a font, there's Apple Braille... SIX TIMES. What? Supporting visually impaired users is great and all, but I'm not ALLOWED to hide this from my font menu cause some political correctness police force will take my computer away? When did this become a thing? The Apple apps like Keynote are a little better, because I can create a "Favorites," but I just really don't need to deal with all of these Asian scripts that I'll definitely never use. I wrote to Microsoft about this as well.

Apple used to be the computer "for the rest of us," which focused on ease of use, but their font menus are not easy to use at all.

I'm assuming Apple has all those Chinese fonts because that's who builds our computers and they are also big customers. Fine, give us a version without all those Chinese fonts. They are huge and there are a lot of them. Sure would be nice.

 

[Alameda]

I'm assuming Apple has all those Chinese fonts because that's who builds our computers and they are also big customers. Fine, give us a version without all those Chinese fonts. They are huge and there are a lot of them. Sure would be nice.

I don't mind that the Chinese, Mongolian and Braille fonts are installed in the computer, I mind that they show up in the Font menus of my apps. Surely Apple people know that most of us don't speak Swahili so we won't ever use the Swahili font.

 

[zevrix]

I mind that they show up in the Font menus of my apps.

I only want to add that we should demand from individual app developers to add an option to filter the font list (as it's unlikely Apple will ever listen to customer feedback on this).

 

[MacGizmo]

I only want to add that we should demand from individual app developers to add an option to filter the font list (as it's unlikely Apple will ever listen to customer feedback on this).

Adobe does this with their apps (at least the print-focused apps anyway). The problem with their implementation is that you have to ADD fonts to the filtered list - which means every time you activate a font (or a font gets auto-activated) you have to manually add it before it shows up. It needs to be set up so that all fonts are automatically added to the list and you check off which fonts you DON'T want to see (since there are much less of them).

Unfortunately, I don't see many (if any at all) doing this. The only reason Adobe does it is that they have their own font service, so it's worth the development time to implement it.