Photoshop: Ability to disable fonts from within Photoshop

@1567043 - When was the last time you needed "Wingdings" or "MS Reference Specialty" in your mockups?

If the OS is dependent on a font, why in world would you want to try and hide it. 
There are so many REAL issues with software, why pick on something like this.
But if you want to have a font not show up in a program, it would be nice to have a way to hide it not try to disable it.

I would respectfully disagree that the OS should be the gatekeeper for fonts. There are a lot of "Compatability and support" fonts that are exactly that... utility fonts with no purpose to a designer or artist in the context of photoshop. I agree that if you're fumbling through 500 3rd party fonts, you should be using a font manager or uninstalling unsuded ones, but we're talking about the big list of crud that comes with the OS and Office Suite for instance. The number of times I'll be using "MS Outlook" or "Dubai" in photoshop is exactly zero.

Giving the option of hiding or filtering those out in the menus to power users is not the same as just shutting it off by default. This isn't something that would be accidental, "I bumped my elbow and now all my system fonts are missing". Put it in a hamburger-menu-option dialog and it's safely tucked away where only people who know what they are doing will get at it.

Aside from not having them clutter the list, the menu not having to generate preview thumbs for those fonts might be a performance boost.

I see where you're coming from and I'll log a feature request to block the display of fonts in the menus.  To be honest, however, I would expect a lot of push-back on such a feature for the reasons I detailed.  Clearly if Apple went to all that trouble to make it impossible to remove these fonts, then it would be unwise to disable them as their presense could be required for unforeseen reasons.  Hiding their display in the font menu could be a work-around, but that's liable to be work which management might not agree needs to be done.  If you have user-stories you could share, that would be helpful to get this work prioritized.

Thanks,
David

Hey David, 
Thanks for the reply. 
Let me start by saying that in MacOS Mojave you can not disable system fonts in Font Book. The option to do so is greyed out, see the attached screenshot below: 

I even went as far as trying to install a third-party font management app (Font Explorer X Pro) and it also was unable to turn off system fonts. 
Not being satisfied with that I then tried to do it the old fashioned way. MacOS keeps non-user fonts in two places. Some are kept in: 

HD > Library > Fonts

And the bulk of system fonts are kept in: 

HD > System > Library > Fonts 

Anything in the first location can be removed, but nothing in the second location like our friend Apple Braille can be deleted: 
The above screenshot is what happens when you attempt to delete the file. Moving it is also impossible. So that kind of puts a damper on your suggestion. 
Even if this was still possible I do want to address the notion that you would be duplicating functionality and that this should be done at an OS level. I'm sorry but if you take your Adobe hat off that's a bunch of none sense. Your very own example of what happens if a font is off in Photoshop and you need in AI in a smart layer works against you. 

You would ask a user to go a remove system fonts to have them stop appearing in Photoshop and risk damaging their system or finding themselves in a circumstance when the system requires it and it is not there. 
Seems like the same problem you brought up, only worse because now it is at a system OS level.

If it were handled in PS it could be solved with a warning dialog box when you go into a situation where it is on in one app and off in the other. Ultimately the fonts don't even need to be off, just the ability to filter them out of the list in a way that does not sacrifice the favorites list. 

If you are seeing Apple Braille, then you're running on a Mac.  The functionality to disable fonts is available from the OS by default via Font Book.  No reason to duplicate existing functionality.

The fonts you are complaining about are included by the OS for compatibility and support.  Photoshop gives users access to MANY different kinds of fonts -- which is why we try to work with any font, from any source on the OS.  So again, the point of filtration should be the OS.

If you've got more than about 500 fonts, you're going to see system performance degrade.  And there isn't anything anyone can really do about it; resources are finite, though lesser machines will slow down with fewer fonts.  In deed, disabling fonts is a GOOD THING as it reduces overhead for ALL your apps.  Another reason it should be handled by the OS.

So, given this limit and that you can mark the ones you like best as favorites, 90% of the problem is solved.  To do the rest is actually quite a bit of work that wouldn't be useful to most users -- and the interaction between apps can be a serious killer -- what happens if you've disabled a font in PS but you use it in AI for a smart object in your PS layour...?  No, Adobe used to have a font management app, but really, that is the domain of the OSes for a number of good reasons.  Font management needs to be applied uniformly across applications.  People already complain that Photoshop is trying to do too many things beyond image editing -- font management sure seems to fall into this category as well.

To disable Lorem Ipsum, which was a user request (not all users want the same features, just as not all users use the application in the same way), go to Preferences > Type and uncheck Fill new type layers with placeholder text.

Thanks,
David

Exactly! 😄

Lorem ipsum place holder has been a feature in other software for years.  It seemed logical to include it in Photoshop. Better yet, if you don't like it you can disable it.

What do you mean? Let’s say for the sake of making an example that right now there are 100 fonts showing inside of Photoshop. Of those fonts let’s say that 35 are useless to me. That means I need to put 75 remaining fonts into my favorites in order to have a list that filters out the ones I do not need.

However of those 75 not all are my favorites. I might have 15 fonts I use as favorites. Not I have sacrificed the favorites list to get rid of the fonts I do not use at all and have no way of filtering to just my favorites.

A font browser/filter popup dialog from the hamburger menu in the characters panel sounds like a good place to stick that, IMO. Power users could multi-select and dump fonts to and from an "Active" column to an "Inactive" column. It would also help troubleshoot stability issues since poorly made or corrupted fonts tend to cause lots of problems.