'fontd" application taking excessive CPU usage on macOS when using ANY creative cloud app

[afig]

I have noticed over the last months issues when running any creative cloud applications and I was able to track the issue was related to an abnormal behaviour by "fontd" that was triggered everytime any cc app was used (even the creative cloud manager). Within seconds fontd takes up to 100% of CPU capacity.

I have reached out to apple support extensively for days and have tracked this isn't a system issue (no problems on safe mode or other users), not related to font book (reset the application with no success). I have also reinstalled macos sequoia completely and didn't get a satisfatory solution.

Now the behaviour seems a bit more inconsistent, but it still happens and the main symptom is my browser crashes as soon as I open any cc application.

apple support told me to reach out to adobe, but unfortunately their support is practically inexistent so I am reaching out to the community to see if anyone has experienced something similar and has been able to resolve this or has any new information on this issue.

[afig]

worth saying I have also deleted an extensive amount of cache files as instructed by apple support and no result.

[kglad]

what and where is fontd?

[Peru Bob]

@kglad 

What is fontd on a Mac?

“fontd” is the “Font Daemon” which is responsible for managing font registration on MacOS. It makes fonts available to the system — as shown in the screenshot below. “fontd” replaced ATSServer from MacOS 10.6 (https://www.manpagez.com/man/8/fontd/). By the way, AST stands for “Apple Type Services”.Jun 23, 2023

[Peru Bob]

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