Yesterday, 09:35 PM
(Yesterday, 02:51 PM)marty39 Wrote:(12-27-2025, 02:45 AM)AdmFubar Wrote: Check the preferences in gimp. there should be a path to the fonts gimp can access in the path list in preferences. The paths are at the bottom of the preferences list.
You may wont to create a directory in your user directory for fonts. Then point gimp to that directory. This way you arent cluttering up your system's font directory with a large amount of fonts. (not to mention bogging your system down with large amount of fonts)
Did that.
Gimp's Settings, Folders, Fonts points to two places, one in a system area on the drive and one inside the Gimp application. Both are empty.
Mac provides a font folder in the user folder, and I have some fonts in it. Like the fonts that the Mac provides in the system area, they are automatically installed, so they bog down the system if there are too many. However, the fonts in the user font folder can be deactivated by a font manager app. Gimp sees all the installed fonts except the fonts that have been deactivated.
The dotted fonts, including the SF (San Francisco) fonts, are not in any of these places.
(Yesterday, 12:45 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Gimp uses the standard Linux font configuration system (aka fontconfig), and you can tweak at the user level ...
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Of course, I can't tell how much this applies to MacOS (or Windows, for that matter) but that can tell you what to look for.
Thanks for the suggestion, but in the end it didn't help. MacOS has a different configuration file structure from Linux. I was looking for a preferences file for Font Book, couldn't find any, and then realized the problem is in the first sentence of your comment. In the Mac, Gimp evidently does not use the standard macOS font configuration system, as it has all these SF fonts that other applications don't have. It's finding fonts that I can't even find on the drive.
I believe that Gimp overlays the Linux way over the MacOS way, in otherwords, the part in the GTK font library that get the system-installed fonts use the macOS calls, and then it adds its own processing over that local fonts.
Some fonts (typically: Serif, Sans and Monospace are virtual and are mapped to your default Serif, Sans Serif, and Monospace fonts (historically, Times New Roman, Helvetica and Courier).