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commpass
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October 23, 2019
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BUG in Photoshop with macOS Catalina: Noto fonts are crowding font list.

  • October 23, 2019
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BUG in Photoshop with MacOS Catalina: Noto fonts are crowding font list. This is happening only in ADOBE Apps (PSD, AI, ...).    Hey ADOBE!  Could you please FIX THIS ANNOYING BUG?  

 

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      Aashu_Bhargava
      Adobe Employee
      Aashu_Bhargava
      Adobe Employee
      December 8, 2020

      Hi 

      If any one is still facing this issue, please check if you have Rightfont app installed or updated recently. 

      Open it > Go to all fonts or activated fonts > look for Noto fonts which you want to remove > select the font > click on Font (top menu bar) > delete from library.

      Close the app restart Photoshop & check.

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      mabc8
      Participant
      December 8, 2020

      Hi Aashu,

      this is really incredible, but it works! Just great! Thanks for the tip - finally a neat and tidy font list again.

      This does not work with all fonts that annoy, but at least most of them can be deactivated.

      Thanks, stay healthy and have a nice day!

      MAB

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      Boob
      Participating Frequently
      June 26, 2020

      Updated Mac OS and PS yesterday and this has gotten to be more than annoying. I know these fonts got on my machine somehow via Google. Is there some way Adobe can tap into the Font Book on Mac and filter via the Font Book's "smart collections"? There's a collection just called "English" that eliminates the Noto fonts but I don't believe PS works with Font Book in that way. I know you can filter all sorts of ways in PS itself, but I wanna scroll through all my fonts without having to stop and change filters (serif, sans-serif, handwritten decorative, etc.)

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        Test Screen Name
        Legend
        June 26, 2020

        These fonts are owned by Google but they are included with macOS by Apple. It's not recommended to remove system fonts, even though the number keeps growing. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210192

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          mabc8
          Participant
          June 11, 2020

          Has anybody fixed this mess?

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            Boob
            Participating Frequently
            June 26, 2020

            oops - sorry.  Meant to reply to the main thread...

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            mabc8
            Participant
            February 21, 2020

            The same problem here. The Noto-Fonts are part of Catalina and cannot be deactivated or deleted. In Apple-apps the non-latin fonts are NOT visible, but Adobe shows them all. This is really annoying.

             

            If Adobe cannot implement a filter not to show the system fonts (like Apple), then at least they should give us a font class "Latin Fonts" where the non-latin fonts dissappear. Even better: let us create own font classes.

             

            Edit: Some Noto-Fonts were installed in Mojave, too. But they (and other non-latin fonts) were sorted to the end of the Adobe-font list - this is not a perfect solution, but a lot better than the Noto-mess in Catalina at the moment.

              B. B-R
              B. B-R
              Participating Frequently
              February 20, 2020

              oui toujours ce problème très embêtant. Apple répond qu'il s'agit bien d'un bug Photoshop ; je soupçonne que l'origine Google de cette police de caractère y soit pour quelque chose.

               

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              Test Screen Name
              Legend
              October 29, 2019

              Doesn't look like a bug. If you don't want the fonts you could remove them?

              B. B-R
              B. B-R
              Participating Frequently
              June 11, 2020

              Impossible ce serait super.

               

              jane-e
              Community Expert
              jane-eCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              October 29, 2019

              Hi

               

              The Noto font / Catalina issue has also been reported in Affinity and Apple forums. This is the only possible solution I have seen, and I can’t test it as I have not yet updated my OS.

              https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250770888

               

              Affinity forum:

              https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/45481-fixed-how-to-remove-fonts/

               

              ~ Jane

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              tyusmed
              Participant
              October 29, 2019

              This is a serious annoyance! Has anyone resolved the issue? 

                jane-e
                Community Expert
                jane-eCommunity Expert
                Community Expert
                October 24, 2019

                Hi Commpass,

                 

                Here is the list of fonts included with Catalina:

                https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210192

                 

                The list can be expanded to show additional fonts that can be downloaded.

                 

                ~ Jane

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                Lumigraphics
                Legend
                October 23, 2019

                Noto fonts are from Google. This has nothing to do with Adobe.

                https://www.google.com/get/noto/

                  commpass
                  commpassAuthor
                  Participant
                  October 23, 2019

                  It's not about font owner, but how it shows at font list inside the software. Every time you need to choose a font, you need to scrool down a bunch of Noto fonts variations (not grouped).  Maybe it's a Catalina bug, but it affects a lot Adobe users.

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                    Lumigraphics
                    Legend
                    October 23, 2019

                    Looks like these arte shipping with Catalina. Google has a bunch more variations. See if Font Book can deactivate them?

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