how do I remove unused fonts from drop down menu?

[Jessica30527557tpkp]

I don't want to see fonts in alphabets other than English. I don't want to see English fonts that I never use? How do I turn them off?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It used to be easy: with or without a font manager, you could remove any fonts you did not want. 

Now, between OS fonts and app fonts often installed at a system level, meaning code level surgery is required, you are stuck with fonts for pretty much every language on earth. 

I mean, someday you might need to set up a flyer in Uighur.

(This is widely hated, but Apple, MS and Adobe are smarter than we are. )

[Joel Cherney]

It used to be easy: with or without a font manager, you could remove any fonts you did not want. 

Now, between OS fonts and app fonts often installed at a system level, meaning code level surgery is required, you are stuck with fonts for pretty much every language on earth. 

I mean, someday you might need to set up a flyer in Uighur.

(This is widely hated, but Apple, MS and Adobe are smarter than we are. )

Even I, whose entire career revolves around the need to someday maybe typeset a flyer in Uighur, or Khmer, or any one of sixty-odd other languages, would like to not be forced to see OS-level support for All Langs in my InDesign font dropdown. Forcing a bunch of monolingual people to be frustrated by endless lists of fonts they can't use is, I think, not a good idea usability-wise. 

You can hide fonts in the Windows Fonts folder, and IIRC it'll hide those fonts from you when you're in MS apps, but not when you're in InDesign. 

[Steve Werner]

It sounds like time for a feature request. Remember, here's the place to request and vote for requests:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

[Steve Werner]

One way you could handle it it to mark the fonts you DO want to use as Favorites. Then choose to display ONLY your favorites by turning on the Favorite filter.

It you decide to add a new favorite, turn off the Favorites filter, showing all your fonts again, including the non-English fonts. Pick the new fonts you want to be favorites, then again turn on the Favorite filter so only those are displayed.

[Jessica30527557tpkp]

Thanks! I'll try that.

[Steve Werner]

If that works for you, please mark this as a Correct Answer. That will help others with the same problem.

[lindamosky]

This solution is not easy (because you have to do it for every CC app and you can't save favorites as a list), so good luck with app upgrades that delete it) and it's incredibly time consuming. It also means you have to remember to favorite every new font you install. Please stop giving this answer as an easy solution and recommend people take the issue to Adobe. There is no reason why Adobe can't add a language filter in the character drop down menus jsut as they have filters for classifications. Other apps do it, but Adobe would prefer we waste our time with this ridiculous Favorites non-solution.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Can you point to an example of a "font-based" app that has better filtering, or any filtering at all, on a usual creative system with several hundred installed fonts?