This means I’ll be paring down the article to remove old info. MacOS has changed greatly with the past two releases. That would be either Adobe’s LT Standard Helvetica fonts, or those from Monotype (Linotype). For those who prefer, or require PostScript versions, you would need to purchase those in the OpenType PostScript format. Type 1 PostScript and Apple’s very old OS 9 style TrueType fonts conflict with the OS versions and are all but dead now anyway. Your only choices for Helvetica or Helvetica Neue (and a few others) now is to use either those supplied with the OS, or newer versions. With most any third party font manager, you can control the fonts in the /System/Library/Fonts/ Supplemental folder, but not in the /System/Library/Fonts folder. This ability died beginning with Big Sur when Apple thoroughly locked down the System folder as read-only. Personal notes: Sorry folks, I completely missed that Suitcase and Connect Fonts can no longer control the system fonts. If you find this article useful, please consider making a donation via PayPal.Ĭlick here to download a PDF version of this article. To view the older version of this article and access information back to OS X, 10.3, click here. The minimum required fonts will be very different for other languages. It should be noted that this article is written around the assumption that you are using English as your primary language. This article will benefit prepress operators and graphic designers the most, but can clear up font issues for most general users as well. The idea is to keep your font list as small as possible to avoid font conflicts (font conflicts are explained in Section 13). Its main purpose is to show you where fonts are located on your system and which can be safely removed. This article deals with font usage in High Sierra 10.13.x through Monterey 12.x.

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