There are entirely too many fonts in Photoshop, and it makes choosing a useful font more cumbersome than necessary. Is there any way to remove some of them? I mean, I'm sure Colonna and Curlz are useful to someone, but I have no idea who what would be.
You need to use the numerous filters to refine your font search
This video covers the features that came with CC2014. It was at this time that entire font families were listed under the font drop down menu, which I suspect is what is annoying you. It is fair to say this was not a universally popular development, but people missed the point that the extended font family list does not appear if you use filters.
So clicking in the font name field and typing
BO gives you all the bold fonts
IT — italics
CO — condensed
EX — extended
RE — regular
SC — script
LI — light
HA — hand
BO IT — bold italics
And other combinations, plus I am bound to have missed some
CC2015 added more control with a drop down for font classes, and we can select just TypeKit fonts, and perhaps the most useful filter of all, we can now mark fonts as favourites, and filter the list to just show those. So not such a terrible situation.
Of course there are always trade offs and down sides, although I have no idea why this has to be the case. Some fonts that have been included with Photoshop right up to CS6, suddenly became unavailable, and nor do they appear in the TypeKit collection. I was spitting blood when I discovered that little development!
TypeKit is a wonderful tool, and has an excellent font manager, but is rendered useless by the restricted number of fonts you can sync at any one time. Even with a full subscription you only get 100 fonts, and I think the Photography plan gives you a mere 10! If you choose to sync all of a font family's weights, you can go over your limit with one font. Acumin Pro, for instance, comes in 16 weights.
This definitely helps, and I have turned off some fonts to clean things up, but there's several mystery fonts (such as the aforementioned Colonna and Curlz) that are not in Font Book, and therefore, I can't deactivate. However, I did look on another machine that's running Photoshop, and those fonts aren't in the list at all, so I'm likely blaming Adobe for a problem that isn't theirs.
Even after doing a search, I can't find a single copy of those fonts on my machine. Not sure how to fix this, but I'll keep digging. Probably a case of user error. Thanks for the help!
In your Mac FontBook, select a font and hit ( i ) in the window tool bar. You will see where reside your font. Many fonts are added by Microsoft software like Office.
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