Comments on: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard font list

By: Benny und Lilia

Benny und Lilia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:16:13 +0000

Ducklett (Piccolente) = 鴨寶寶

DANCING WITH THE DUCKLETT TRIO! (Pikachu und das Piccolente-Trio!)

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:04:31 +0000

Just do it in Apple’s Font Book. Or, yes, you can move fonts out of the Fonts folder. (Though I would leave any fonts in the System/Fonts folder alone.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:37:07 +0000

I think the only fonts you should keep your hands off of are the ones in System/Library/Fonts. As for the fonts in Library/Fonts, I think you can go ahead and remove them. Microsoft used to put fonts in ~/Library/Fonts, too.

But! why would you really want to? If your jobs are coming in from Adobe products, their software since CS 5 has put the fonts used in a Font folder in the project’s exported folder. Adobe programs read those fonts, first. And, for Quark, I think you can put whatever fonts you want to use for a job in your User’s Font’s folder. The User’s font folder is read before the other two listed above.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:14:06 +0000

Hey – just stumpled upon your blog. I am so fet up with all these extra fonts in OSX. Incoming graphic jobs with special typefaces for brands and clients + my own favorite selections make more that enough fonts i graphic applications.

My Question
Can i remove/deactive the /Library/Fonts ?
Once it was possible to make a Fonts Off folder below the Fonts folder and move them there. Is that still a viable solution with Snow Leopard?

Thanks in advance
Stewart

By: Bill Clarke

Bill Clarke — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:23:19 +0000

I assume it’s a font problem b/c that’s what VWX tech help people told me. Wish I understood it better—- it has to do with the fact that VWX default font seems to be MENLO, which is new as of Leopard. The only way I can create ANY text in VWX on my MacBookPro is to set the font as MENLO. And of course the bigger problem is I cant work on pre-existing files created on my desktop Mac (OS10.5.8, and thus lacking menlo).

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:14:50 +0000

What makes you think it is a font problem? It could be; but, where did you hear that?

So, you are saying there is a font conflict that Vector Works cannot resolve? If that is the case, I would suspect you would have to open the file on an older computer, change the font, and then transfer it to the new computer. Or, let the developer know and hope for an update.

By: Bill Clarke

Bill Clarke — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:53:54 +0000

My MacBook Pro runs 10.6, and I’m not able to view or create any text when I open Vectorworks files created on my desktop Mac, which runs in OS10.5.8. Ive learned this has to do with Snow Leopard’s new font, Menlo. Apparently the work-around is to change all files’ fonts to Menlo before opening them on the newer computer. (If I just upgrade to 10.6 on the desktop, I dont think Ill be able to view the text of older files at all.) So — can I download MENLO onto my desktop (10.5.8)? and how?

By: Laurens

Laurens — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:40:04 +0000

That is an interesting question but unfortunately I do not know the answer. An OpenType Pro font typically contains a larger set of characters (glyphs) than a regular non-pro version. Some foundries, for example, include Cyrillic and Greek character sets in their Pro fonts. With the ProN fonts, I assume that the N refers to a specific type of additional characters that are included. I cannot find any reference to support that theory though.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:12:29 +0000

Does anyone know the difference between OpenType Pro vs OpenType ProN fonts?

Apple installs Japanese fonts such as: Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3.otff
They also install Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN W3.otff

What is the difference?

By: BJ

BJ — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:24:32 +0000

I found the apple’s official font list of the Mac OS X 10.5 (leopard):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1642

and Mac OS X 10.4 (tiger) font list:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1538

BUT i couldn’t find 10.6 snow leopard official font list.