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While not exactly what you're looking for, you can use macOS Font Book to disable a Font or Font Collections.
Good luck with that - this has been an issue for like a decade. They dont care.
Im obviously here for same reason. Tired of working on graphics and having to scroll through a sea of NOTO and STIX and a few dozen more that I can't disable, delete, hide, etc....
Id be happy if Apple or Adobe stored fonts in different sub folders... System fonts can be hidden from other programs and stored in the library - wouldn't be hard for Apple to have a "Fonts - User" and a "Fonts - System" folder setup.
The other issue is... only so many fonts (and this includes variations) can be activated at the same time - Id rather take up my space having my fonts... I mean look at this list & thats just half of the NOTO's. - RIDICULOUS!
Apple has made an API for this purpose since at least High Sierra. It's what they use to hide fonts not related to your language in Font Book, Pages, etc.
Adobe has yet to implement it, and they are one of the few holdouts who insist on displaying every single macOS system font, without giving the user an option to hide them.
Still, this wasn't a big deal until Ventura. You used to be able to use any of the better third party fonts managers to disable as many of the fonts in the /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental folder as you wanted. But in Ventura, even these are now completely off limits to the user. Leaving us with ridiclously long font lists in the Adobe CC suite.
Purely a guess on my part, but I can only think Adobe isn't hiding these fonts since they can't know which fonts an advertising firm or print shop may need access to in order to work on a multi-language brochure, flyer, etc. Essentially, why make the user purchase similar third party foreign language fonts when what you need is already provided with the OS?
Making favorite font lists is a pain in the posterior. You will find yourself constantly editing this list as you switch jobs and need access to different fonts. It is better than nothing, but clumsy.
The API, if Adobe would ever implement it, is a very simple and elegant solution. The developer of EtreCheck wrote a teeny app that shows how easy this is. He has since pulled it from GitHub, but I can show a couple of screen shots.
Probably the most annoying to Mac users is the roughly 100 Noto Sans fonts you can't get out of the way. With the check box off, you see those and many other fonts most English users will never need.
Turn the check box on, and poof! All non-English fonts are instantly hidden.
That's literally all it would take to (mostly) fix this issue. A check box. The makers of the SoftMaker Office suite are adding one to the upcoming 2024 release.
Where would I put it? At the top right so it's always out front and easily available. Turn it off when you need access to those extra foreign fonts. Turn it on when you don't.
Unfortunately, no. In Ventura, and likely every OS going forward, Apple has made every font installed by the OS off limits to the user. Even just deactivating those you don't need isn't allowed.
Neither Font Book, or any third party font manager can touch them. Some, like RightFont, will go through the motions of disabling the Supplemental fonts, and even shows them as deactivated in its interface. But nothing actually happens. They're still all active.
Per my little suggestion above, it would make more sense to add a check box to hide the system fonts in the text options.
This will help a bit. There are a very large number of OS installed fonts you actually can remove, but the only way to do it is via Font Book. All of these "extra" fonts are in the folder…
/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_Font7
This procedure will remove all non-fixed fonts, which means any sets you've created will also be cleared. If you want to , save the sets in your user account (~/Library/FontCollections) to the desktop so you can simply put them back after following the directions below. Though you may also want to copy the fonts in your user account to the desktop. I haven't tested to see if these steps will delete only your sets, the fonts they point to, both, or neither.
Open Font Book. Click on All Fonts at the top of the left column. Highlight any font at the right and then press Command+A to select all of them. Right click anywhere in the list and choose Remove or Deactivate. It doesn't matter which one you select since the result will be the same. You'll get this message:
Click the red button. The entire folder mentioned above will be emptied except for the file com_apple_MobileAsset_Font7.xml.
A very large number of non-English fonts will now be gone from your font lists. If at any point you need a particular font back, all you need to do is right click on that font in Font Book and choose Download.
Also keep an eye on that folder. OS updates tend to install all of them again.
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