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TobiasG.
This question has been asked a lot, but I was not really satisfied with the answers.
The situation right now: On my Windows10 I started to install more and more fonts. Obviously, the folder is getting larger, and right now there 443 fonts in my system's Fonts folder. I hate this clutter and since I keep a very tidied up stock of data and all the backups (e.g. movies, well-tagged audio files etc.) with 2 decades worth of data, I was like: "Hey, I could finally sit down and look through my fonts and give them proper names instead of those funky, cryptic ones). My fonts are a mess, when I look for a certain "Googie" fonts or of my recently purchased pack of vintage ones, I have to scrool through so many duplicates. In my image editor, when I create some graphics, I usually have to tap through the list of fonts to see the demonstration - and I realized there are like 10 Arial UNICODE fonts.
Or here, this one (red marked):
As you can see, those fonts look very "DOS"-ey and I have the feel I might break something during boot or when the system is simply expecting fonts to be "there". And those "POLI", "LETT", "ITAN" etc. let me guessing that those are country-specific ones, but the "GERM" font did not contain any of the German letters, such as "Ö,Ä,Ü and ß", so I have 14x the EXACT same font going on - which, obviously, sucks.
I've read something on the web that show me what fonts are shipped with Windows, but that does not help, because I just wonder what I really need. E.g. "Comic Sans MS" is shipped with Windows, but outside of MS BOB the mid-90s, this font has literally ZERO use. Or what about "Times New Roman"? Apart from being the default font in Word95, I really never use it. Deleting it is probably one of the safer choices, but I really want to know what is set up for Windows to look for as to-go font if "FontX" is not found, similar to Windows using a generic display driver if you uninstall your dedicated one. So must be some generic fonts Windows jumps back to. And I'd like to know those so I can keep them safe. So slapping me a list of integrated fonts "to keep" is only the small part of the solution. So, please can anyone tell me what I need to KEEP?
Thanks in advance.
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The situation right now: On my Windows10 I started to install more and more fonts. Obviously, the folder is getting larger, and right now there 443 fonts in my system's Fonts folder. I hate this clutter and since I keep a very tidied up stock of data and all the backups (e.g. movies, well-tagged audio files etc.) with 2 decades worth of data, I was like: "Hey, I could finally sit down and look through my fonts and give them proper names instead of those funky, cryptic ones). My fonts are a mess, when I look for a certain "Googie" fonts or of my recently purchased pack of vintage ones, I have to scrool through so many duplicates. In my image editor, when I create some graphics, I usually have to tap through the list of fonts to see the demonstration - and I realized there are like 10 Arial UNICODE fonts.
Or here, this one (red marked):
As you can see, those fonts look very "DOS"-ey and I have the feel I might break something during boot or when the system is simply expecting fonts to be "there". And those "POLI", "LETT", "ITAN" etc. let me guessing that those are country-specific ones, but the "GERM" font did not contain any of the German letters, such as "Ö,Ä,Ü and ß", so I have 14x the EXACT same font going on - which, obviously, sucks.
I've read something on the web that show me what fonts are shipped with Windows, but that does not help, because I just wonder what I really need. E.g. "Comic Sans MS" is shipped with Windows, but outside of MS BOB the mid-90s, this font has literally ZERO use. Or what about "Times New Roman"? Apart from being the default font in Word95, I really never use it. Deleting it is probably one of the safer choices, but I really want to know what is set up for Windows to look for as to-go font if "FontX" is not found, similar to Windows using a generic display driver if you uninstall your dedicated one. So must be some generic fonts Windows jumps back to. And I'd like to know those so I can keep them safe. So slapping me a list of integrated fonts "to keep" is only the small part of the solution. So, please can anyone tell me what I need to KEEP?
Thanks in advance.
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