On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:52:05 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:


So, you're in your favorite word processor, and you want to select a
different font. Do you want to scroll through 50 fonts or 150 fonts,
when you know you'll never use 100 of those fonts since you don't
need/use Cyrillic or Asian fonts?



I just checked. I have 270 fonts installed. These are all fonts that I
chose to have installed. Yes that's a lot, and only rarely do I use
more than a dozen or so of them.

But WordPerfect (my favorite word processor) keeps the fonts I most
commonly used at the top of the list, so very rarely do I have to
scroll at all. I also checked in Microsoft Word 2016, which I have
installed but very rarely use; it does the same thing.

There are undoubtedly some fonts there I've never used and never will
use, but having those that I think I *might* use some day has such a
small penalty that I'm not inclined to remove any.


Personally, I get tired of having to
deal with the fonts I'll never use.


I don't know word processor you use, but if it's WordPerfect or Word,
dealing with many fonts is very easy.


Then there's consistency for your own docs. You have two computers, one
is Windows 7, the other is Windows 10. You use a font in the doc you
created in Windows 7. Then you take the doc to Windows 10 and...
WHOA!!! That font is not on that machine... G


Yes, that could be an issue, but they don't even have to be two
different Windows versions. Two computers running the same version of
Windows can have different fonts installed.

But I have only one computer, so I have no issue like that. My wife
has her own computer, and it doesn't have all the fonts mine does, but
I very rarely give her a document from my computer, and if I do, it's
highly unlikely to have any fonts other than Times New Roman and
Arial. And ditto if she sends me a document.




But, I think this has more to do with how one uses their computer than
whether a general recommendation can be made regarding such things.
Being that these are "personal computers", one can do with them as they
wish.

Exactly. I use different computers and OSes depending on what I need to
accomplish.


Understood. But I don't, and that's why what's important to you isn't
to me.


When I want to send this file to someone, it goes as a PDF with the
fonts embedded. That way it doesn't matter what software is installed
on the recipient's computer, it will look just as I intended it to look.


Same here, but doing that is very rare for me.