Organizing fonts: which NOT to remove?

[LadyAdina]

Thanks to The Font Thing tutorial I've decided I'll try it out. After taking a look in the windows/fonts-directory I realized I have almost 700 fonts there - way to much. Now I'd like to move them into a scrapbooking fonts directory, and I'm positive I read somewhere yesterday which fonts you should absolutely not remove from the windows/fonts directory. Only now I can't find the place I read the list. Does anyone know where to find such a list?

I am so ready to get started organizing the fonts, but I don't dare to move any other fonts than those I specifically remember installing myself.

Another question: is it best to copy the fonts I'm moving into the new folder, and then uninstall them properly from the windows/fonts directory (and reinstall them from their new location), or can I simply just cut-n-paste?

Hope I was making myself clear and that someone could give me a hint...

Thanks! :)

[Kristen]

Here's a list of Windows XP fonts (I found it on the Adobe site.)

Font Filename
Arial Arial.ttf
Arial Black Ariblk.ttf
Arial Bold Arialbd.ttf
Arial Bold Italic Arialbi.ttf
Arial Italic Ariali.ttf
Comic Sans MS Comic.ttf
Comic Sans MS Bold Comicbd.ttf
Courier 10,12,15 Coure.fon
Courier New Cour.ttf
Courier New Bold Courbd.ttf
Courier New Bold Italic Courbi.ttf
Courier New Italic Couri.ttf
Estrangelo Edessa Estre.ttf
Franklin Gothic Medium Framd.ttf
Franklin Gothic Medium Italic Framdit.ttf
Gautami Gautami.ttf
Georgia Georgia.ttf
Georgia Bold Georgiab.ttf
Georgia Bold Italic Georgiaz.ttf
Georgia Italic Georgiai.ttf
Impact Impact.ttf
Latha Latha.ttf
Lucida Console Lucon.ttf
Lucida Sans Unicode L_10646.ttf
Microsoft Sans Serif Micross.ttf
Modern Modern.fon
MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 Sserife.fon
MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 Serife.fon
Mv Boli Mvboli.ttf
Palatino Linotype Pala.ttf
Palatino Linotype Bold Palab.ttf
Palatino Linotype Bold Italic Palabi.ttf
Palatino Linotype Italic Palai.ttf
Roman Roman.fon
Script Script.fon
Small Fonts Smalle.fon
Symbol Symbol.ttf
Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24 Symbole.fon
Tahoma Tahoma.ttf
Tahoma Bold Tahomabd.ttf
Times New Roman Times.ttf
Times New Roman Bold Timesbd.ttf
Times New Roman Bold Italic Timesbi.ttf
Times New Roman Italic Timesi.ttf
Trebuchet MS Trebuc.ttf
Trebuchet MS Bold Trebucbd.ttf
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic Trebucbi.ttf
Trebuchet MS Italic Trebucit.ttf
Tunga Tunga.ttf
Verdana Verdana.ttf
Verdana Bold Verdanab.ttf
Verdana Bold Italic Verdanaz.ttf
Verdana Italic Verdanai.ttf
Webdings Webdings.ttf
WingDings Wingding.ttf
WST_Czech WST_Czech.fon
WST_Engl WST_Engl.fon
WST_Fren WST_Fren.fon
WST_Germ WST_Germ.fon
WST_Ital WST_Ital.fon
WST_Span WST_Span.fon
WST_Swed WST_Swed.fon

[dmp103]

Another question: is it best to copy the fonts I'm moving into the new folder, and then uninstall them properly from the windows/fonts directory (and reinstall them from their new location), or can I simply just cut-n-paste?


Thanks for that list, Kristen! Anyone know the answer to LadyAdina's second question? I'd like to know that one too!

TIA!

[Amanda]

I've always just moved them - not copied :)

[Haley64]

Here's what I just read this morning dealing with fonts. It talks about how to move them, it's 3 pages long but interesting!! The do's and don't!

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/fontoverload.htm

[LadyAdina]

Thanks a lot to both Kristen and Haley64! I've now moved as many of the font files as I dared - let's just hope I haven't screwed anything up! This far The Font Thing has worked fine and I think it will make my font-collecting easier, safer and faster. Great! :D


Here's what I just read this morning dealing with fonts. It talks about how to move them, it's 3 pages long but interesting!! The do's and don't!

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/fontoverload.htm

[LadyAdina]

Oh, sorry, forgot to thank you too! :eek:


I've always just moved them - not copied :)

[Marcee]

This is great information. I always wondered what fonts I started out with on my computer. I have over 1000 now installed

[lialoon]

Read the follow link http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/fontoverload.htm
where they are instructions for triming fonts plus it has a link to a program (freeware) Font Frenzy that can help a lot with font managing. It can moves the fonts without moving any font that windows need.
check it out......................... :)