Font Management in mac. OS and OS XThis section examines each of the various Mac OS releases Panther 1. High Sierra 1. 0. System folder for that particular release of the operating system in order for it and most third party applications to run properly. These lists also include the fonts most needed for the web, i. Life and i. Work. The fonts listed should always be active on your Macintosh for OS X and should not be removed. Note that this first part of Section 1 covers only fonts required in the SystemLibraryFonts folder. There is also a root LibraryFonts folder with its own set of required fonts, which will be addressed in the second half of Section 1. From the font lists below, Keyboard. Last. Resort. dfont and Lucida. Grande. dfont are used mainly for menus and other system font display purposes therefore, they are the most important to the OS itself. In Mountain Lion and earlier, you must never remove Lucida Grande. Without that font, the system will not boot. If you remove it while the system is active, you will lose control of all menus they will be blank, essentially locking you out of your Mac. Mavericks utilized a different method to protect access to the desktop see the specific text alongside the minimal font list for Mavericks. In Yosemite, Lucida Grande is no longer the main system font, and Helvetica. Neue. Desk. Interface. El Capitan through High Sierra change things again with the introduction of an all new set of system fonts San Francisco. This set, Helvetica. Neue. Desk. Interface. Lucida. Grande. ttc must be present for the Finder menus to work. All other fonts in the SystemLibraryFonts folder that are not included in the lists below by release level can be removed. You will need Administrative access to delete fonts from this folder. This article explains how to set up Mac OS X for the minimum number of fonts. Also how to avoid font conflicts, and troubleshooting of font issues. No more missed important software updates UpdateStar 11 lets you stay up to date and secure with the software on your computer. TransType-4-activation-key.png' alt='Transtype 4 Mac Serial' title='Transtype 4 Mac Serial' />It is advised to save them for future use. Create a new folder on your hard drive and copy them there first. If there are any removed fonts you want to use for a project at a later date, they can always be activated with Font Book, Suitcase Fusion, Font. Agent, Master. Juggler, Font. Explorer X Pro, Type. DNA, or other font manager. Note that Master. Juggler is Power. PC only, and so is suitable for use only in Snow Leopard 1. Mac OS. Beginning with Leopard, 1. Mountain Lion 1. 0. Apple made it difficult to remove critical fonts. If you attempt to remove protected fonts from theSystemLibraryFontsfolder, the OS will tell you that you cannot remove the fonts and immediately replaces them from copies in another location. There are many fonts you can still remove from theSystemLibraryFontsfolder, but some will resurrect themselves. See section 5 on how to permanently remove Apples supplied versions of Helvetica and Helvetica Neue in Leopard, 1. El Capitan, 1. 0. Mavericks 1. 0. 9 and later eliminated this type of font protection, but you still need to remove the supplied fonts if they conflict with other types of fonts you are required to use. El Capitan 1. 0. 1. High Sierra 1. 0. System Integrity Protection to the OS, making it yet more difficult to remove unneeded fonts, but it can still be done. Other than those fonts the OS absolutely requires to function, when it comes to the fonts you prefer to have on your system there is no right or wrong list. My idea of required fonts is based on years in prepress. So like most shops, the number of fonts throughout the system is kept to a minimum in the effort to make sure you will never have a conflict with the fonts a client sends with their project. Actually, the prepress and full service printers Ive worked and freelanced for usually have a much shorter list than even those presented here. Sometimes the barest minimum of fonts they can get away with and still have the OS function. Such shops normally have no unnecessary software installed on their work stations just whats needed to get production work done. This bare minimum setup has some advantage, but you will then be missing many fonts commonly used on the web. What then happens is that your browser ends up substituting the missing fonts with whatever font is available. The result is that web pages will display so badly at times that it can be difficult or even impossible to navigate them. The bare minimum setup also lacks many fonts that Apple supplied applications require to operate. So for most users having only the bare minimum fonts on your system is not recommended. You can find many different web sites telling you what the minimum font installation for each mac. OS and OS X release should be. Each site has its own reasons for including some fonts that I do not, and others dont include fonts I think should be active. Ms Project 2013 Free Download Full Version With Product Key For Windows 7 64 Bit. My main decision making was to run every application the OS ships with and many major third party applications, seeing what wouldnt work if a particular font were missing. The end result is the list of fonts you find here. Its a compromise between the Spartan set most prepress shops use, and what a more fully functional OS needs along with proper display of web pages. Special Notes About Section 1 Presented in no particular order as each OS release changes the rules a bit. Hopefully each is organized into its own paragraph, but no promises. Readers who have followed this article for some time will note that Times and Symbol have been added to the required font lists. They were excluded before since this article was originally intended as a guide for prepress, when the article was also much shorter in length. So the lists have been modified to represent what the majority of mac. OS and OS X users should have in their SystemLibraryFonts folder, rather than the leaning towards the needs of prepress. So Courier has been added back into the minimum font lists for the System folder. As with Times and Symbol, remove Courier if it interferes with your need to use a Post. Script version. Users should be aware that not all font managers, and possibly other utilities, will list font names exactly as you see them here. For example, Suitcase Fusions interface lists Keyboard and Helvetica Neue Desk UI as having a period preceding their names, even though they are not listed as having a period as part of the name by the OS. Not even if you do a file listing in Terminal. Font Book also hides some fonts in its listings from the user in Snow Leopard and later, such as Last. Resort and Keyboard. But you shouldnt be removing those fonts anyway. Apple has tied their conflicting versions of Helvetica so closely to the OS, and in so many places, it is no longer easy to manage them so you can use a Type 1 Post. Script version. If you havent already, purchase Adobes or Linotypes new Open. Type Post. Script Helvetica fonts if you prefer, or require Post. Script fonts for your output. They do not conflict with Apples Helvetica fonts, so you dont have to fight with the OS supplied fonts as to which ones are active. Use Type 1 Post. Script when you have to accurately reproduce a standing older project see section 5 if this applies to you. One thing to be aware of when you disable Apples Helvetica. Helvetica. Neue. dfont, is that you are disabling quite a few fonts. This is because a. The following list is based on Mavericks. Helvetica Regular, Bold, Bold Oblique, Light, Light Oblique, Oblique. Helvetica Neue Regular, Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Light, Light Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Thin, Thin Italic, Bold Condensed, Ultra. Light, Ultra. Light Italic,  Condensed Black, Condensed Bold. With El Capitan, Apple has almost released Helvetica and Helvetica Neue back to the user. Really Bad news. Adobe, Microsoft and possibly other third party vendors have not. See the minimum font list for El Capitan for more information. Apples Grapher program is not something normally used in prepress, which relies on the fonts Times and Symbol. As clients frequently use other versions of Times and Symbol, the Apple supplied versions can be excluded from the lists below if you need them out of the way. See section 2 for more on Grapher.