The main can/can’t issue now is the font manager reviews in section 12. But at least it’s still much less of a mess. Now we’re back to a can/can’t issue anyway. Or, at least I thought it would until discovering Ventura blocks you from disabling fonts in the Supplemental folder. That eliminated virtually all of the can/can’t situations. My goal then was to use Big Sur as the new starting point as it’s the first OS version where the user could no longer remove any fonts installed by the OS. It becomes difficult to keep so many straight. Why the extensive rewrite of this article?Īs with the previous cutoff, it had simply become too long and a mess of, “you can do xxx under this OS, but not this one”. I use them interchangeably throughout this article.

The following words: program, application or app all have the same meaning. Users/ your_user_account /Library/Fonts/. Which, if you start by double clicking the icon of the boot drive on the desktop, the path can also be presented as So in most cases, the path to the Fonts folder in your home user account would be ~/Library/Fonts/. ~/ The tilde-forward slash pair is always your home directory (folder), i.e., the home folder of the current user login session. The beginning forward slash (as in the example to the Terminal application) of a file specification is always the root level of your boot volume. This is known as a hierarchical file specification in geek terminology, but it’s called a canonical filename for short. For example, here is the file specification for the Terminal application:

I can’t tell you exactly what the path to your home account looks like (since I don’t know your short user name), so here are some handy notes of reference.Ī file specification is the entire path from the root of the volume it resides on to the end of the file name. This should help novice computer users and those unfamiliar with standard notation to learn how to navigate to the folders mentioned throughout this article. By ’notation’ I am referring to the path name. I first want to mention the notation of file locations. Thank you to all who donated over the years, sent in ideas, notes for improvement, or just to say “Thanks!” Click here to get this page with all of the same current information, but without this goodbye box. Or, do both.Ĭlick on the “here” links above for the oldest and next newer retired articles to retrieve them. Or in Safari, do a Save As and save each article page as a Web Archive. I wanted to put this note out early enough to give readers a chance to save copies of all three final articles for permanent storage by saving each last PDF. This site will cease to exist July 1 st, 2024. I would have to say the chances the user will ever again have the ability to control these fonts is pretty much zero. We instead got more of the same in Sonoma. I was hoping if enough people complained when this lockdown started in Ventura that Apple would give control back to the user to disable the supplemental fonts. Because of that the original and main purpose of this article has been rendered moot. Apple appears to have made the permanent decision to completely block all access to the OS installed fonts even the mostly useless fonts in the Supplemental folder. I’m sorry to say the time has come to bring this article (blog) to an end.

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