![]() So when you create a special dingbats font for whatever reason, it won’t be in the menu – often they only have a very limited set of glyphs and most of the time you don’t put them on the umlauts, because the font will then not be very accessible to international users. The system only recognizes a font as being “German” when it has umlauts and an ß ligature. let’s call it pleasure … of a closer contact with the “German” setting. several languages on a packaging design), the fonts you need for it will be gone as well.Īnd yet another problem: in German this setting is of course not “English”, but “German”. ![]() As soon as you need to typeset something else in your job (e.g. The problem with that approach is of course international typesetting. DTP software does not (and Apple fanboys argue that their users should just demand that DTP software finally should honor it as well). You just have to go for the language settings in Fontbook where you can set it to “English” and then everything but English is gone from the menus. People in the Apple forums argue that there’s a feature built into the system that can hide them. PS: Some Mac users have reported success in hiding the Noto fonts with the Font Menu Cleaner app ($7.99). But where it is and how to hack it, I have no idea.Īt least now you know a couple of ways to “just say no” to Noto. The apps have to keep track of your favorites somewhere, so no doubt there’s a preference file containing that info. As a side benefit, you might also rediscover some cool fonts you forgot you had.Īnd I wouldn’t totally rule out the idea that there’s a faster way to favorite fonts in bulk. Sigh.īut what the heck, it’s probably worth a lunch break, right? It’s a pretty brainless activity so you can just put on some music or a good podcast and star away. Some users report losing their list of font favorites even though they explicitly chose to preserve settings and preferences in the Creative Cloud app. And by “never” I mean at least not till the next time you upgrade. You’ll just have to decide if the one-time torture is worth never having to traverse the Noto Wasteland again. You have to click them one at a time, which is insanely tedious if you have a ton of active fonts. The lousy part is (as far as I know) there’s no way to select multiple fonts at a time to mark them as favorites. It’s on the far left in Photoshop font menu and the far right in InDesign and Illustrator. Just click the little star next to every font you do want to see in the menu. ![]() The second method is to use the Favorites feature. You just need to remember to un-filter the next time you want a different class of font. In a bizarre but welcome twist, you can even filter for sans serif fonts and the Noto fonts (which are almost all referred to as “sans”) will be hidden. Ditto for scripts, handwritten fonts, etc.Ĭlicking any class filter will hide the Noto fonts. So, if you know you want a serif font, click that filter button. Simply, use the controls in the fonts menu to filter by class. The other is tedious and time-consuming but it will allow you to eliminate Noto fonts with surgical precision.įirst, the easy way. One is very quick and easy, but it will hide other non-Noto fonts. Because hey, you never know when someone from three continents away might pop in for a quart of milk.įortunately, all is not lost. It’s as if every time you went to your neighborhood grocery store you had to park a half a mile from the door because the closest 100 parking spots were reserved for folks from every other country in the world. If you’re the kind of person who likes to browse through your fonts to pick one, this gets tiring very quickly. So, you might have to set aside a chunk of your day to scroll from NewsGothic to NuevaStd. ![]() That means if you’re using a Mac, you now have over 100 Noto fonts clogging the font menus of your programs that you can’t turn off, even if you never need or want them. Nor can these fonts be disabled with font management software. At least not without some serious (and for most mortals, seriously perilous) system brain surgery via Terminal. Sounds great, right? But the problem is that Apple thinks these fonts are so great, and so essential, that they now come installed in macOS and cannot be uninstalled. They’re also free to use anywhere, available under the Open Font license. The intent behind the Noto fonts is a noble one, namely to provide a global writing system composed of high-quality fonts for every written language. Here’s a quick tip for decluttering your font menus in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign by hiding the Noto fonts.
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