Too many fonts - where are thay?

[Ofnuts]

Gimp uses the standard Linux font configuration system (aka fontconfig), and you can tweak at the user level which fonts are used by fontconfig applications.

This is done by creating/editing a ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf file, and adding rejectfont elements in it. A <rejectfont> element may contain a <pattern> element which itself is made of a <patelt> element that tells which part of the font spec the pattern is matching and what the pattern is. Usually you target the family part. So for instance to hide the system installed TeX Gyre Schola fonts, my fonts.conf file is:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <selectfont>
        <rejectfont>
            <pattern>
                <patelt name="family">
                    <string>TeX Gyre Schola</string>
                </patelt>
            </pattern>
        </rejectfont>
        <rejectfont>
            <pattern>
                <patelt name="family">
                    <string>TeX Gyre Schola Math</string>
                </patelt>
            </pattern>
        </rejectfont>
    </selectfont>
</fontconfig>

After editing the file you normally run fc-cache -r to rebuild the font cache  (this is a standard Linux utility...), and if Gimp is up you just use the right-cick menu in the fonts list to rescan the list.

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.