Photoshop: Ability to disable fonts from within Photoshop

I already have an app for that, I don't need them all in PS

I'd like to voice my support for this feature. Having my fonts lost in a massive list of OS fonts has frustrated me for the last decade or so... it seems many people feel the same.

It's as simple as this:

• In the Creative Cloud app, there's already a Manage Fonts section (great!).
• In this section add a "hidden fonts" tab. 
• Display all system fonts in a list and allow the user to toggle certain fonts as hidden.
• These fonts will now be hidden from the list in all Adobe apps. If a document is loaded which contains a hidden font, it will be displayed as normal - the fonts are hidden from the LIST ONLY, they NOT disabled.

It's really pretty trivial to see how beneficial this is. It's an opt-in feature, that will solve a massive headache and not affect any third party apps. Expecting us to mess with system fonts and potentially break simple web browsing is ridiculous.

Please please please implement this feature. 🙂

April 7, 2022. the issue is still unresolved.

The app should have a way to filter out fonts we will never use in photoshop. thank you photoshop for listing all the fonts that are installed, but please give us a way to remove fonts so we do not have to scroll past 100 foreign language fonts to get to the bottom of the list.

Although, you wonder why My Mac OS needs such fonts when I am using English. Even in Spanish or German mode those other fonts are there. Oh well.

It is annoying, but you deal with it.

Peace all.

Talking about removing fonts at a system level is going off course. 

Adobe is not creating the OS and therefore has no control over it. 

The discussion is wether or not Photoshop should allow users to hide certain fonts. I believe given the majority of the comments that most people agree with me. 

When you are trying to do creative work and playing around with various type faces having all this crap in your way slows you down and breaks your concentration. As far as I'm concerned that's the end of the discussion. 

It amazes me how stagnant Adobe is as a company. That something so useful for a user gets buried because of company politics.

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply, I must admit, i have no idea of (technical) consquences and (im)possibilities of not installing certain fonts.

So probably the most realistic and doable option would be to be able to hide them in Photoshop and, in my case even more needed, Indesign. 

Hope it'll possible some day!

Cheers, Mark

There are a number of compatibility issues if you skip installing the core foreign fonts for each OS.  Now, true, you in particular might not have that as part of your workflow, but anyone who does will be DOA without the full set of OS fonts.  Trust me, it's not like the OS manufacturers WANT to pay to give you fonts for free; they're needed for compatibility.  Again, perhaps not your workflow...but then, so much "just works" cuz those fonts are already there...

The case to hide (specific writing system) fonts within PS is a different issue (and possibly do-able) and I'll mention at today's meeting, but that's different than choosing not to install them.  Indeed, even choosing not to enumerate certain fonts would be a rather new direction...

Thanks,

David

With the addition of the "Manage Fonts" panel in the Creative Cloud App, there should be a way to use that to flag non-adobe fonts as "hidden" from all Adobe apps, without having to disable or remove them systemwide.
Or tie into the "favorites" idea and have a "hidden" toggle in the font filters dropdown in PS.

I totally agree with Adam (andmany others), it has been a big frustration for as long as i use Mac and Adobe applications (30+ years), to have all those unwanted, completely useless (to me) fonts in the fontlist of every program. 
Why not have the option option when installing a new OS to specify for which language we want to have fonts available, so immediately preventing specific (e.g. chinese, arabic, hebrew) fonts from being installed. 
Or, if that's such a problem, to completely disable and hide them. I don't see any reason why this can't be incorporated in the OS and/ore apps. So much is adaptable, personalizable, why not this?