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But that is the story I’ve read for their reason to exist. What support is that? Good question, because I don’t know either. Apple considers them useful only as backward compatibility document support. From what I’ve been able to find on the subject, it comes down to this: All of the extra fonts included with the OS over the decades, not used for the GUI itself, have never been there for the user. It does no good to call or write Apple about it since they won’t answer such questions. You may wonder why since you’re not trying to delete them from the drive, just disabling the ones you don’t need.

Thoughts and suggestions on what to do regarding the System fonts in Ventura (and probably from here on):Īpple cut off access to handling even the Supplemental fonts in Ventura.

It was time to move that data to an older, static page. We’re three versions of macOS in now from Catalina.

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Anywhere it says a font manager can disable the Supplemental fonts is true for Monterey or earlier, but not for Ventura, and very likely any OS to come after it.Ĭutting everything off at Big Sur also allowed me to eliminate full sections that were completely obsolete for that OS and later. The main can/can’t issue now is the font manager reviews in section 12. But at least it’s still much less of a mess. Now we’re back to a can/can’t issue anyway. Or, at least I thought it would until discovering Ventura blocks you from disabling fonts in the Supplemental folder. That eliminated virtually all of the can/can’t situations. My goal then was to use Big Sur as the new starting point as it’s the first OS version where the user could no longer remove any fonts installed by the OS. It becomes difficult to keep so many straight. Why the extensive rewrite of this article?Īs with the previous cutoff, it had simply become too long and a mess of, “you can do xxx under this OS, but not this one”. I use them interchangeably throughout this article. The following words: program, application or app all have the same meaning. Users/ your_user_account /Library/Fonts/. Which, if you start by double clicking the icon of the boot drive on the desktop, the path can also be presented as So in most cases, the path to the Fonts folder in your home user account would be ~/Library/Fonts/. ~/ The tilde-forward slash pair is always your home directory (folder), i.e., the home folder of the current user login session. The beginning forward slash (as in the example to the Terminal application) of a file specification is always the root level of your boot volume. This is known as a hierarchical file specification in geek terminology, but it’s called a canonical filename for short. For example, here is the file specification for the Terminal application: I can’t tell you exactly what the path to your home account looks like (since I don’t know your short user name), so here are some handy notes of reference.Ī file specification is the entire path from the root of the volume it resides on to the end of the file name.

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This should help novice computer users and those unfamiliar with standard notation to learn how to navigate to the folders mentioned throughout this article. By ’notation’ I am referring to the path name. I first want to mention the notation of file locations. I’ll be especially interested in seeing how Font Book behaves in Ventura on an Apple Silicon Mac, and if it’s anything like what I’ve written about it on an Intel Mac. New M2 mini is on order and I’ll be able to catch up on testing I couldn’t do before.

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To view the next newer retired article for information including Catalina and earlier, click here.Ĭlick here to download a PDF version of this article.Ī very big thank you to everyone who donated to the GoFundMe page. To view the oldest version of this article and access information back to OS X, 10.3, click here. The minimum required fonts will be very different for other languages. It should be noted that this article is written around the assumption that you are using English as your primary language. This article will benefit prepress operators and graphic designers the most, but can clear up font issues for most general users as well. The idea is to keep your font list as small as possible to avoid font conflicts (font conflicts are explained in Section 9).

Its main purpose is to show you where fonts are located on your system and which can be safely deactivated (where applicable). This article deals with font usage in Big Sur 11.x through Ventura 13.x.