Manually
cleaning up your System Font and Application Font folders
To achieve the clean up of
your System and Application font folders it is necessary to
remove all fonts that are not essential for the operation
of OSX. You may not use these fonts in your day-to-day work
but it is a good idea to save them.
1. Create a folder in My
Fonts and call it
Fonts
from System.
2. Create a new folder within the Fonts
from System folder and name it
Library
Fonts.
3. Move all the fonts from /Library/Fonts
to your
Library
Fonts folder.
4. Create a new folder within the Fonts
from System folder and name it
User
Fonts
5. Move all the fonts from /Users/[name]/Library/Fonts
to your
User
Fonts folder.
6. If you have a Classic System Folder (it will have an OS
9 icon and can be found at the root level of your main hard
disk) and you want these fonts to be managed by your font
manager in OSX then you should move these fonts. Once
moved, these fonts will no longer be available to OS 9
applications.
Create a folder and call it Classic
Fonts within the
Fonts
from System folder. Move all the fonts
in /System
Folder/Fonts to your new folder
except the
following fonts
Charcoal
Chicago
Geneva
Monaco
These fonts are essential to the normal system operation.
7. You must be logged in as a user with Administrator
rights to move System
Domain Fonts. Create a folder and name
it System
Fonts in the Fonts
from System folder.
Select all the fonts in the /System/Library/Fonts
folder
except the
following essential
system fonts:
AppleGothic.dfont
AquaKanaBold.otf
AquaKanaRegular.otf
Courier.dfont
Geneva.dfont
HelveLTMM
Helvetica LT MM
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3.otf
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W6.otf
Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4.otf
Hiragino Mincho Gothic Pro W3.otf
Hiragino Mincho Gothic Pro W6.otf
Keyboard.dfont
LastResort.dfont
LucidaGrande.dfont
Osaka.dfont
OsakaMono.dfont
Times LT MM
TimesLTMM
Copy the selected fonts from the /System/Library/Fonts
folder to the
System Fonts folder you created.
Press Command-Delete
to remove the
selected files from the System
Folder.
At the prompt enter your Administrator password and
click OK.
Adobe
Application Fonts
If
you have installed applications from Adobe (which is quite
likely) font files will have been placed in a special
location. You could leave the fonts here if you wish, but
if you want to use them in other non-Adobe programs and/or
are using a font managements program you can move them. To
locate and move these files:
1. Create a folder and name it
Adobe Application Fonts within the
Fonts
from System folder.
2. Move all the fonts in /Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Fonts except the folder
named Reqrd
and the
fonts in this folder.
A note about
Helvetica
Helvetica is not an essential
system font. However, some applications still require an
active version of Helvetica to operate. As soon as you
remove Helvetica from your system font folders, be sure to
activate a version of Helvetica using your font manager. It
doesn't matter which font format you use (PostScript,
TrueType, OpenType, etc). For professional publishing and
print I recommend using a PostScript version of Helvetica.
(See
Re-installing fonts and Installing new
fonts)
>> Re-installing
fonts
