This means that you don’t end up with a menu full of activated fonts that you don’t need when you’re experimenting with a layout. Typeface makes this possible.Secondly, and this is big, is the ability to apply fonts without activating them, simply by drag and dropping the font into your layout. I store my fonts on a cloud folder so they’re all accessible from whichever computer I’m using.

Typeface doesn’t take your fonts and create its own database - it leaves your folders alone and just links to them. Two aspects of Typeface that strongly appealed to me are its non-intrusive way of handling your fonts, meaning that you can organise and structure your fonts folder however you wish - I do mine by style and by client/project. To enable the font again, mark the font and click the Enable button (this is the same button as the Disable button, but when a font is disabled the button looks like below).Best in class As part of my switch to M1, I decided to rethink my approach to font management. A disabled font are dimmed and marked as ‘Off’. The font will not be disabled, but not removed from your Mac. Press the Disable button, located in the Edit Menu, and confirm the action. Locate the font or fonts that you wish to disable. You can also uninstall and remove the font by selecting the font/fonts and click File > Remove ‘Font Name’ Family, and confirm the removal. Lastly, confirm the removal and the font will be uninstalled and removed from your laptop. Select the font/fonts and uninstall and remove the font by right-clicking and click Remove ‘Font Name’ Family. Locate the font or fonts that you wish to uninstall and remove.

Note that it isn’t possible to remove or disable system fonts on Mac. The iOS system offers an option to also disable a font, which will remove the font from your apps or in the Fonts window. The great thing with Mac is that you can remove a font from your font list without removing it from your laptop. As well as this, we will also explain how you can remove a font from your apps, without removing it from your device. In this article, we will walk you through the steps on how to uninstall and remove a font from your Mac. If you’ve installed a font that you no longer wish to keep, you can easily uninstall and remove the font from your iOS device.

Or, select fonts, and click File > Remove Font, & confirm.

Right click the font and select ‘remove ‘font name’ family’.

Locate the font to be uninstalled in Font Book App.

This page is part of The Ultimate Font Guide, an introductory font manual that explains the basics of fonts and how to install fonts, use them in different applications and more.

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