Feature Request: Hide System Fonts

[anonymous4212]

In any Adobe app related to typography, choosing the typeface is one of the most important steps in the design process. Unfortunately, every app is plagued with the same problem - all your carefully curated fonts are diluted in a huge list of system fonts.

You can't disable/delete the system fonts as this will break other apps and even simple web browsing. The ability to disable system fonts is disabled in macOS for this reason.

The solution is simple:

• In the Creative Cloud app, there's already a Manage Fonts section (great!).
• In this section add a "hidden fonts" page. 
• 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.

If you really want to remove any ambiguity, you could have a "show hidden fonts" toggle in the app font menus

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. Navigating the font list is one of the biggest pain points in my design process right now, and has frustrated many others (see https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/photoshop-ability-to-disable-fonts-from-wit...).

Please please please have a look at this, it's been requested for years 🙂

[kglad]

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[mattk79]

How about all this garbage https://prnt.sc/rcCOaZDLJERe. Photoshop slows to a crawl as useless systems fonts are loaded. I can't believe there's not a filter or a way to go in to preferences and only load User fonts in Adobe CC. Have we gone back 20 years now. I know every 20 years a generation repeats itself. This is not cool in technology. 

[kglad]

those aee your system fonts.

[mattk79]

Yes. I don't need Burmese. I speak English. I even if Mac OSX needs to load them for whatever reason, they should not be showing up in my Font list for apps. In Font Book is has System, User and Computer fonts. Why can Adobe not differentiate and only show User or Computer load fonts. Not the crap Mac OSX decides it has to have. This kind of stuff shold be hidden. 

[kglad]

if they're system fonts, they're installed on your computer and are independent of anything adobe. if you don't need them, uninstall them.

[anonymous4212]

Hi, respectfully, you are missing the point. MacOS and other operating systems come with hundreds of preinstalled fonts, many of which are useless in the context of text editing or Adobe apps.

But these fonts are required to be installed. If you install them, it can break basic web browsing capabilites.

They are so required, that Apple has removed the ability to disable any system fonts. See note about macOS 13 Ventura here.

It's been frustrating many people for years - see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here
^ Yes those are all unique forum posts!

[anonymous4212]

Ah, typo there. I meant:

If you uninstall them, it can break basic web browsing

[mattk79]

You can't uninstall them. The are OSX required and locked. But even if I could they will cause major issues. 

[mattk79]

You are exactly right. Adobe apps are slower than they were 10-15 years ago and yet we now have more powerful and faster computers... supposedly. 🤦🏻‍:male_sign:

[anonymous4212]

I had a quick search for "hide system fonts" on the forums...

So many people have compained, where is the response from Adobe?

See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here

[kglad]

these are user forums. there are 2 ways to contact adobe; chat and twitter (now x):

chat:
use a browser that allows popups and cookies
and click here, https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?rghtup=autoOpen
in the chat field (lower right), type AGENT
be patient, it can take quite a while to reach a human.

twitter/x:
tweet @AdobeCare

p.s. if you're contacted by anyone (via email or private message), it's much more likely to be a scammer than an adobe representative.

[anonymous4212]

Thanks for the info 🙂

[kglad]

@anonymous4212 

you're welcome.  let us know what they say, if you have time.

[mattk79]

They can't fix the issue as stated by @@anonymous4212 they are OSX system fonts. 

[mattk79]

I just want to hide them in Adobe apps. I don't care about Fontbook. Creating a Favorites as some have mentioned would take forever and would keep me from using it to Favorite 5-10 fonts. Not to mention if you try to Filter fonts then you'll get all those system fonts too. When you install Mac or Adobe it's asks which language you want. However, it's like it install ALL the languages in the world because that's what "system fonts" are. They are not computer language. They are clearly foreign languages that are not English. They should not be installed if you choose to installed English only. It CAN be fixed. It's Apple and Adobe lack of caring and just pushing it on everyone that is the difference. Not "breaking" the system. Computers and software are way to advanced to use the excuse that that cannot recognize where someone is located. Essentially like Google Translate works for visiting non-native language websites. 

[pagalina]

Totally agree AND I'd love to be able to hide the cajillions of fonts that Microsoft also installs. I don't need any of these for my design work and if I did for some random reason, I could always turn it back on! 

[lindaleeboyd]

I am SO tired of having to scroll though system fonts in every app. It's a real time waster. Please fix this issue. 

[chopshopstore.com]

(cursing removed) How is there not a plug-in by a third party at this poiint. I would literally pay $9.a month to hide all those (cursing removed) Noto fonts. I avoid using fonts after the letter N to avoid going past all the Noto variations. 

How is this such an unsurmaountable problem? Between Apple just NOT doing this and… I don’t know, Adobe taking an afternoon with some coders to just allow you to “hide” them from appearing in the menu? 

[Ton Frederiks]

Try this workaround from Anne-Marie Concepcion at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/7-11-2025-nomo-noto-hiding-apple-s-...

[mattk79]

Unfortunately, this is a paid option. It's behind a paywall.  

[Ton Frederiks]

Sorry, I tried to find a public version of her tip, but could not find it.

You can use your free LinkedIn period to have a look at this (and many more interesting training material)

And you can cancel it if you want before it transfers into a subscription.

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a7737016