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.