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How do I delete fonts in Illustrator?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
February 26, 2020
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I have fonts showing up in Illustrator (Noto Sans Javanese, Noto Sans Kannada, etc.) that are all symbols and I want to delete them from my font library. Unfortunately, Font Book is telling me that these fonts cannot be removed. These fonts are also not showing up in my cc typekit so I can't "deactivate" them. I don't understand... why would these completely useless fonts be restricted from being removed? There are like 30 of them and it's beyond frustrating having to scroll past them all when I'm looking for a different font. Not to mention the load time my font library takes... Adobe is telling me to remove the fonts that I don't use... but is not actually letting me remove the fonts I don't use. SO FRUSTRATING! Please help!

JG4MI

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I just came across your old posting. Did you ever find a solution? I just spent two days of wasted time trying to get an answer from Aobe and all are Indian and cannot understand them. I still have Arabic, Japanese, Chinese fonts in my menu that I cannot disable or remove. It's beyond frustration and Adobe is at fault. These fonts came in when I used CC and downloaded new fonts. It's Adobe.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

The system installed those fonts and it is not recommended to uninstall them. You also cannot hide them in Illustrator. You can try this: https://creativepro.com/how-to-hide-noto-fonts-in-your-font-menus/#:~:text=Clicking%20any%20class%20filter%20will,a%20different%20class%20of%20font.

JG4MI

Participating Frequently

I was downloading fonts from CC and all the foreign fonts invaded my font
menu. This is not acceptable and telling me I cannot remove them. I DID NOT
INSTALL THEM! And if they were part of my system, then why did they just
show up now brand new in my font menu after downloading my "chosen English"
fonts from Adobe CC? Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Hindi are NOT part of my
system. Period.

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jimtealiii

Known Participant

All we need is a toggle show/hide system fonts. Can Adobe tell the difference? Illustrator should be able to tell where they are loading from, right?

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

That could be a feature request to post in the Illustrator User Voice forum. The rival CorelDRAW application does this kind of filtering in its fonts menu, but the functions are tied into their Font Manager application (which has its own pros and cons). I don't know if a font management app would be necessary in Illustrator's case. But Adobe would probably have to use different methods on OSX and Windows to filter the differences between System Fonts and fonts added by the user or other applications.

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Marilia Spera Art

Participant

I wish AT LEAST we couls choose not to see this anoying symbols in Illustrator... having the same doubt how to solve it here!

Monika Gause

Community Expert

@Marilia Spera Art schrieb:

I wish AT LEAST we couls choose not to see this anoying symbols in Illustrator... having the same doubt how to solve it here!

Apple installed these fonts for whatever reason. Maybe complain to them. Please read the complete thread. There might be font managers available that can hide those fonts.

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anass0D4D

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Im facing the same issue and every month i try again to solve as its very annoying

i can understand that there are few fonts(5-6 noto fonts) used by system, but the problem when you open illustrator or photoshop there are maybe 100 or more

if you access fonts folders at library you cannot find any of them, where to find them and where to delete them, this is too much annoying

noto fonts and cannot be used and very ugly i hope somebody can help

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You might want to read this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251055722

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Ilil5E2C

Participant

Hi

did you find a way to resolve this problem?

I have the same issue.

can't delete this Noto font from anywhere

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Test Screen Name

Legend

These fonts are nothing to do with Illustrator. They are included with MacOS, in effect a part of your Mac. So you see them in Illustrator like all your MacOS fonts. Apple have set it up so you can't delete them easily, and it may be unsafe to do so. Anyway, if you don't like the situation, Apple are the people to talk to.

silk-m

Community Expert

Hi,

Currently there is no support other than removing it from macOS.

These fonts are located in the "/ System / Library / Fonts / Supplemental /" folder and cannot be deleted while Catarina is running.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/how-can-i-remove-the-fonts-display-as-a-long-rectangles-in-mac-photoshop-cc-2020/m-p/10788690?page=1

If you are aware that there is a risk, delete only the fonts in the Supplemental folder.
It is safer not to delete "NotoSansArmenian.ttc, NotoSansKannada.ttc, NotoSansMyanmar.ttc, NotoSansOriya.ttc, NotoSerifMyanmar.ttc".

I am requesting a correction because it is the same with Photoshop, but it is not yet supported.

--Susumu Iwasaki

Mario Arizmendi

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Hi, as illustrator by itself is not a font manager, it only shows up the fonts installed into your system, you must try to find manually that fonts in your library and system folders as you can see in the picture attached, I created a folder named Fonts disabled and moved all that fonts that I don't need, Of course, there are fonts that can not be removed because they are used by the system and other applications to work.

Eric Dumas

Community Expert

Hi,

can you confirm the version of the software and operating system you are using? (I assume as Administrator)

That's why I am using a Font management System (like FontAgent) to turn off a lot of nuisance fonts.

MonticelloShopAuthor

Participant

Latest version of CC and OS Catalina. I am not an admin as this is a work computer, but I can have my IT department install anything needed to help with this issue. Thanks!

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