I had a very similar issue to OP - Mac OS Mojave 10.14.5, Rstudio 1.1.456 and R 3.6.0 Between smaller sizes for font files and bigger and less expensive disk storage, there’s no need to worry about all but the most gigantic type libraries.Just want to add a comment in case other users find this help page. Cloud storage, relatively speaking, is no longer prohibitively expensive. Open Type fonts, the newest format, is a single file font, they do render much better than TT, and files are much smaller.ĭisk size has multiplied dramatically since 1984 and continues to expand. True Type fonts had one file that could scale, and it was invented to conserve disk space, but they did not render well on most publication standard imagesetters, though they worked fine on desktop printers. Back then, font files were humongous and took up a ton of space in what we would now consider tiny hard drives. PS fonts were used for professional printing and the files were huge because each point size required its own font, and because screens were crummier, a separate screen font was used that could render quickly on screen and a print version. Mess with system or installed fonts at your own peril.īack in Mac’s earliest years, there were two types of fonts, screen fonts and PostScript. There are also some third party apps that won’t launch without one or another supplied Mac font. It turns out that some applications wouldn’t run without loading them they are needed to run in the background. I can’t speak for Catalina, but in the past some friends I worked with ran into worlds of hurt by deleting system fonts in foreign languages they thought they would never need. #1621: Apple Q3 2022 financials, Slack's new free plan restrictions, which OS features do you use?.#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drives.

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