If you’re more cautious, don’t trash those files immediately. In all likelihood, there will be other font support files in there as well, so make sure you don’t need to keep anything before tossing it all in the trash. That opens a new Finder window with the font files selected. If that’s the case, choose Show in Finder instead. Delete Type 1 FontsĪlthough it would seem like Font Book should let you delete fonts directly, when you Control-click a font, the Remove command may be dimmed out. You can just delete them and move on, replace them with modern OpenType fonts, or convert them to OpenType.
Once you have a sense of which of your fonts will be impacted by this change, you have three options. Click OK to save your smart collection.From the criteria pop-up menu, choose Kind and complete the search by choosing “is” from the second menu and PostScript from the third menu.Give the collection a name, like “PostScript Type 1.”.
Choose File > New Smart Collection to open the Smart Collection dialog.Launch Font Book from your Applications folder.You can do this easily in Font Book by creating a smart collection that selects fonts by kind: However, Mac users whose careers stretch back to the 1990s and earlier likely still have Type 1 fonts kicking around-who would toss a Type 1 font that worked perfectly well? Now’s the time to think about dealing with those ancient fonts.įirst, however, it’s worth a quick trip to Font Book (or whatever font utility you use) to determine which of your fonts are Type 1 fonts. Worse, Type 1 fonts don’t support Unicode, limiting their ability to support extended language character sets. Although some operating systems still support Type 1 fonts, Web browsers and mobile operating systems don’t. Adobe introduced Type 1 fonts at the dawn of the Macintosh age back in 1984, started collaborating with Microsoft on the more versatile OpenType fonts in 1996, and stopped developing Type 1 fonts in 1999. This announcement shouldn’t come as a surprise. All Adobe apps will stop allowing users to author content using Type 1 fonts beginning January 2023. PostScript Type 1 Fonts Are Dead-Here’s What to Doįor you graphic designers out there, Adobe has announced that it will be ending support for PostScript Type 1 fonts starting with Photoshop in 2021.
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