How to get rid of dozens of irrelevant fonts in the font menu?

[TypoMan23]

I am new-ish to CC, and I noticed that I now have dozens of irrelevant fonts in my menu bar. Fonts I will never ever use. They only clutter up the menu.

In my work I use only 3-4 type families, and have no need for all these other fonts that seem to have been installed on my system since upgrading from CS3 to CC, and from OSX to Monterey.

Is there any way to get rid of all these fonts I will never use, so that my font menu will only show the ones that I need?

Thank you for any help. 

[DTP-1984]

Absolutely!! Back in the day we had Now Utilities. It allowed to colour each font, place them in the order you'd like. I remember blue was serif for me and red san-serif etc. A dream. The font menu was static and started from the top when you clicked on the font menu which was directly in the menu bar - called fonts. I have written to every desktop publishing for decades about this.  Apple of course changed OS security and both Now Utilities and MyFontMenu.  Great software but Apple killed it. Ya think things would get better but in many ways it got so much worse.  

[Abambo]

It is a bit of nuisance, yes. And it seems to get worse with every new OS upgrade, be it on Mac or Windows. These past few days, I've been busy setting up a new PC — latest versions of Windows 11 and of Adobe Creative Cloud — and without installing a single font of my own choosing, the InDesign font menu is already populated by at least a hundred fonts, most of which I don't plan on ever using.

By @Piet De Ridder

Microsoft has quite a bunch of fonts installed that come with their OS. Besides this, there are only a marginally number of fonts installed by other applications. But some applications come with an extensive number of additional fonts. That's part of the game. 

Adobe, however, gives you full control over the fonts, with current applications, you won't have extensive font libraries on a DVD as with legacy applications: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/add-fonts-desktop.html

And you can at any moment deactivate all the Adobe fonts, as Adobe applications will install them again, when a file gets opened, that uses those fonts. It is even recommended to clean-up the fonts regularily. If you are using non Adobe fonts, however, like Google fonts, you need to keep track of your fonts manually, or by using a third party application.