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Essential Fonts

You can turn a font on or off using Font Book, or any font management software, to customize what fonts appear in an application's font menu, or in the Font panel. You don't normally need to worry about which Mac OS X fonts you turn off or remove, unless you have a large font library or need to periodically activate various font sets. Fonts that are required by the system, such as Geneva.dfont, Keyboard.dfont, LastResort.dfont, and Lucida Grande.dfont, cannot be disabled.

However, some fonts that you can disable may be required by specific applications. For example, Terminal needs the Monaco font to function correctly.

The number of fonts installed by the Mac OS X Installer depends on which packages you selected when you installed Mac OS X. If you customized your installation, you may not have all of the fonts listed below. If you installed Mac OS X over a previous version of Mac OS X, you may have additional fonts installed. Here is a list of all the essential fonts that come with Mac OS X.

System Fonts (/System/Library/Fonts - cannot be disabled)

Apple LiGothic Medium.dfont
(Traditional Chinese)

Hiragino Mincho Pro W3.otf
(Japanese)

AppleGothic.dfont
(Korean)

Hiragino Mincho Pro W6.otf
(Japanese)

AquaKanaBold.otf
(Japanese)

Keyboard.dfont

AquaKanaRegular.otf
(Japanese)

LastResort.dfont

Courier.dfont

LiHei Pro.ttf
(Traditional Chinese)

Geeza Pro Bold.ttf
(Arabic)

LucidaGrande.dfont

Geeza Pro.ttf
(Arabic)

Monaco.dfont

Geneva.dfont

Osaka.dfont
(Japanese)

Hei.dfont
(Simplified Chinese)

OsakaMono.dfont
(Japanese)

HelveLTMM

STHeiti Light.ttf
(Simplified Chinese)

Helvetica LT MM

STHeiti Regular.ttf
(Simplified Chinese)

Helvetica.dfont

Symbol.dfont

Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3.otf
(Japanese)

Times LT MM

Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W6.otf
(Japanese)

Times.dfont

Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std W8.otf
(Japanese)

TimesLTMM

Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4.otf
(Japanese)

ZapfDingbats.dfont

 

Library Fonts (/Library/Fonts - cannot be disabled)

AmericanTypewriter.dfont

Futura.dfont

Andale Mono

Georgia

Apple Chancery.dfont

GillSans.dfont

Apple Symbols.ttf

HelveticaNeue.dfont

Arial

Herculanum.dfont

Arial Black

Hoefler Text.dfont

Arial Narrow

Impact

Arial Rounded Bold

Kai.dfont (Simplified Chinese)

Baskerville.dfont

MarkerFelt.dfont

BigCaslon.dfont

Optima.dfont

Brush Script

Papyrus.dfont

Chalkboard.ttf

Skia.dfont

ChalkboardBold.ttf

Times New Roman

Cochin.dfont

Trebuchet MS

Comic Sans MS

Verdana

Copperplate.dfont

Webdings

Courier New

Zapfino.dfont

Didot.dfont

 

 

Additional Fonts (/Library/Fonts - that can be disabled)

#Gungseouche.dfont
(Korean)

Gurmukhi.ttf
(Indic)

#HeadlineA.dfont
(Korean)

HelveticaCY.dfont
(Cyrillic)

#PCmyoungjo.dfont
(Korean)

InaiMathi.ttf
(Tamil)

#Pilgiche.dfont
(Korean)

Krungthep.ttf
(Thai)

AlBayan.ttf
(Arabic)

KufiStandarGK.ttf
(Arabic)

AlBayanBold.ttf
(Arabic)

LiSong Pro.ttf
(Traditional Chinese)

Apple LiSung Light.dfont
(Traditional Chinese)

MshtakanBold.ttf
(Armenian)

AppleMyungjo.dfont
(Korean)

MshtakanBoldOblique.ttf
(Armenian)

ArialHB.ttf
(Hebrew)

MshtakanOblique.ttf
(Armenian)

ArialHBBold.ttf
(Hebrew)

MshtakanRegular.ttf
(Armenian)

Ayuthaya.ttf
(Thai)

Nadeem.ttf
(Arabic)

Baghdad.ttf
(Arabic)

NewPeninimMT.ttf
(Hebrew)

BiauKai.dfont
(Traditional Chinese)

NewPeninimMTBold.ttf
(Hebrew)

CharcoalCY.dfont
(Cyrillic)

NewPeninimMTBoldInclined.ttf
(Hebrew)

Corsiva.ttf
(Hebrew)

NewPeninimMTInclined.ttf
(Hebrew)

CorsivaBold.ttf
(Hebrew)

NISC18030.ttf

DecoTypeNaskh.ttf
(Arabic)

PlantagenetCherokee.ttf
(Cherokee)

DevanagariMT.ttf
(Indic)

Raanana.ttf
(Hebrew)

DevanagariMTBold.ttf
(Indic)

RaananaBold.ttf
(Hebrew)

EuphemiaCASBold.ttf
(Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics)

Sathu.ttf
(Thai)

EuphemiaCASItalic.ttf
(Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics)

Silom.ttf
(Thai)

EuphemiaCASRegular.ttf
(Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics)

STFangsong.ttf
(Simplified Chinese)

GenevaCY.dfont
(Cyrillic)

STKaiti.ttf
(Simplified Chinese)

GujaratiMT.ttf
(Indic)

STSong.ttf
(Simplified Chinese)

GujaratiMTBold.ttf
(Indic)

Thonburi.ttf
(Thai)
Some of the fonts included in this list have file names containing non-Roman characters.

Article resources: Essential Fonts and Folders for Mac OS X at www.PrepressX.com and Apple.com

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