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troyjack
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June 4, 2025
Question

Disable Adobe Font auto-activation in Photoshop?

  • June 4, 2025
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Photoshop seems to be AUTO-ACTIVATING fonts from "Adobe Fonts" through the CC app, even though I have Adobe Fonts disabled and all fonts removed in the CC app. Neither Ai nor InDesign have this issue. I cannot find a way to disable auto-activation for Photoshop. I do not want to use Adobe Fonts in this file. Everytime I "Remove All Fonts" they reappear again in Photoshop even after I DISABLE Adobe Fonts in CC prefs.

How do I fully disable Adobe Font activation for Photoshop?

 

This is on a fully restored Mac Studio M1 Max, all software up-to-date.

I've cleared PS font cache, system font cache via terminal, safe boot, and no font manager active.

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    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
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    June 5, 2025

    @troyjack 

     

    i've moved your post to the Adobe fonts forum.

     

    Jane

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    troyjackAuthor
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    August 5, 2025

    Thanks

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    Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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    June 4, 2025

    When you are viewing fonts in the Photoshop fonts menu are you looking at the fonts list for "Your Fonts?" If the "More Fonts" list is selected it will show a broad selection of fonts at Adobe Fonts.

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    troyjackAuthor
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    June 5, 2025

    @Bobby Henderson 

    It's the "Your Fonts" menu. We've had issues with Adobe Fonts "hijacking" our own installed fonts (even with Adobe Fonts disabled), and it is our policy to absolutely not use Adobe Fonts in our work due to differences in metrics that affect our designs, so there should not be any Adobe Fonts visible in the list. In the attached screenshot there are several fonts that should not be in the menu as they have been deactivated/removed from my system, but Adobe seems to be activating them regardless (Cinzel, Fira Sans, Ubuntu Condensed styles) automatically in the CC app (even after "Remove All Fonts" and disabling Adobe Font in prefs). These fonts are currently not residing anywhere locally, as I've completely removed them. I've been using PS for 25+ years and have never encountered anything this baffling and frustrating.

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    Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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    June 5, 2025

    I'm not sure how those fonts could still be appearing in the font menu if they're not installed locally and not synced via Adobe Fonts. Third party font management apps can allow such behavior. Have you tried deleting the font data cache to make the computer system re-build it?

     

    Are you using Mac OSX or Windows-based systems? I've seen Windows occasionally be stubborn about removing fonts from its own Fonts folder. The Cinzel, Fira Sans and Ubuntu type families are all available free from various sources such as Google Fonts.

     

    I've had technical issues with certain type families downloaded from Google Fonts, but those issues usually occurred in rival graphics applications rather than those made by Adobe. Sometimes I'd see the problem solved by going back months later and downloading new copies of the fonts again.

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