Windows 10: Fonts in Win10 : Which fonts do I really ! need to not break the OS

This question has been asked a lot, but I was not really satisfied with the answers.


The situation right now: On my Windows10 I started to install more and more fonts. Obviously, the folder is getting larger, and right now there 443 fonts in my system's Fonts folder. I hate this clutter and since I keep a very tidies up stock of data and all the backups e.g. movies, well-tagged audio files etc. with 2 decades worth of data, I was like: "Hey, I could finally sit down and look through my fonts and give them proper names instead of those funky, cryptic ones. My fonts are a mess, when I look for a certain "Googie" fonts or of my recently purchased pack of vintage ones, I have to scrool through so many duplicates. In my image editor, when I create some graphics, I usually have to tap through the list of fonts to see the demonstration - and I realized there are like 10 Arial UNICODE fonts. Or here, this one red marked:




As you can see, those fonts look very "DOS"-ey and I have the feel I might break something during boot or when the system is simply expecting fonts to be "there". And those "POLI", "LETT", "ITAN" etc. let me guessing that those are country-specific ones, but the "GERM" font did not contain any of the German letters, such as "Ö,Ä,Ü and ß", so I have 14x the EXACT same font going on - which, obviously, sucks.


I've read something on the web that show me what fonts are shipped with Windows, but that does not help, because I just wonder what I really need. E.g. "Comic Sans MS" is shipped with Windows, but outside of MS BOS the mid-90s, this font has literally ZERO use. So slapping me a list of integrated fonts "to keep" is only the small part of the solution. So, please can anyone tell me what I need toKEEP?


Thanks in advance.

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Fonts

Hello,

I found these steps in this forum from back in 2010:

Step 1:

I would suggest you to try these steps and check whether it helps in fixing your issue.

Open font settings by clicking on start, click on control panel, and then click on appearance and personalization, under fonts click on change font settings. And select the font size.

Step 2:

If you’re trying to change windows font size then please follow the steps below:

To change Windows fonts

1. Open Appearance Settings by clicking the Start button and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type window color, and then click Change window colors and
metrics.

2. In the Item list, click the part of Windows that you want to change the font for. For example, if you want to change the menu font, click Menu in the list. Then, make any of the following changes:

· In the Font list, click the font that you want to use.

· In the Size list, click the font size that you want.

· In the Color list, click the font color that you want.

3. Repeat these steps for each item that you want to make changes to, and then click OK.

Does that help?

 

FONTS

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand your inconvenience. We will assist you with it.

I suggest you to follow the instruction provided below and check.

Step 1:

• Download the font type you want to install.
• Right click and click on install.
• Check if you are able to view the fonts in documents.

Or

Step 2:

• Download the font type you want to install.
• Open Control Panel.
• Click on fonts.
• Now, drag and drop the downloaded fonts in the font’s folder.

Hope this information helps. If you have any queries, let us know. Will be happy to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Font name ?

I'll take a wild guess and assume that's a custom made font for whatever that is. you can check Google Fonts archives or DaFont for something that might look remotely similar. It's a gothic type of whatever it is.