Restoring default fonts without reinstalling OS X?

I recently uninstalled a trial version of Microsoft Office, and followed an online tutorial to delete any and all files associated with it. However, by mistake, I deleted some of my default fonts. I've tried using Font Book to recover them but it keeps returning the same error message; "Please reinstall Mac OS X to recover default fonts". I am currently running Mountain Lion, and do not have a bootable version of it with which to reinstall.
I'd like to know if there's an easier way of restoring all my fonts at once, or at least determining which ones are missing so that I could reinstall them each at a time.

There is an option in Font Book to "Restore Standard Fonts"
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Restoring Default Fonts without Mac Installation Disk

I am stuck away from home on business and I mistakenly deleted some of my core fonts now some of my programs are not working correctly. Is there anywhere where I could download a file with all the fonts included in OS X 10.5 startup disk? I guess that it is possible to make a trip to the Mac store but the nearest one for me is a four hour bus ride... So ideally this would be avoided via internet if at all possible. (I would have guessed that the Apple page would offer this type of service but all I could find is a listing of the fonts that are "supposed" to be there)
Any help please?

F.Fortean wrote:
I am stuck away from home on business and I mistakenly deleted some of my core fonts now some of my programs are not working correctly. Is there anywhere where I could download a file with all the fonts included in OS X 10.5 startup disk?
no, this is not possible. distributing any parts of OS X via internet is a clear violation of leopard ULA. anyone who tries to do that on this forum will be quickly stepped on by the moderators. you need to get the fonts off the leopard dvd when you get it. and be careful what you delete.
I guess that it is possible to make a trip to the Mac store but the nearest one for me is a four hour bus ride... So ideally this would be avoided via internet if at all possible. (I would have guessed that the Apple page would offer this type of service but all I could find is a listing of the fonts that are "supposed" to be there)
Any help please?

Need to restore default fonts

I have really messed up my fonts and its affecting my system. After installing tons of third party fonts, resolving duplicates, disabling random fonts, I give up. How do I just wipe out all fonts and reinstall the default fonts?

I just encountered the same problem, and here was how I fixed it:
1. DownloadLinoType FontExplorer X from
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27903
2. Run the program
3. Select Clean up System Font Cache (restore to original setting)
4. The fonts that you added recently would be removed from the system and put into a file on the desktop and you can reinstall them later.
I hoe this helps!
Cheers

Restore default fonts in windows 8.1

Hi,
I want restore all default fonts in windows 8.1.
What i do?

I see what you're trying to do, check out this link:
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/29/remove-custom-fonts-windows-8/

Word default font without normal.dot

Hey,
I try to set Microsoft Office Word 2010 X86 default font via group policy.
(So when I open word the new document opens with default font e.g. Arial and font size 11)
Currently we are doing this through 'normal.dot' file, which is copied at every logon to the path %AppData%\Microsoft\Normal.dot .
Unfortunately Normal.dot changes more than just these two settings and some users need to be able to customize some other things stored in normal.dot through their logoff/logons.
How can the default font and font size be set via group policy without using the 'normal.dot'?
I already had a look at the Microsoft Office 2010 adm/admx files but I was not able to find any setting like these.
Thank you for support.

Hi,
As far as I know, we can’t set the default font and font size for Word without using the normal.dotm.
For more information about this, the following threads can be referred to.
How to change the default font in Word 2010 when using Microsoft Office customization Tool
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/fd04c073-831e-4399-83d0-1779a775d164/how-to-change-the-default-font-in-word-2010-when-using-microsoft-office-customization-tool?forum=officeitproprevious
Defining Office 2010 fonts using GPO's
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/6687fa7d-99da-42ee-8fc9-c18320563613/defining-office-2010-fonts-using-gpos?forum=officesetupdeployprevious
if you still have any question about this, please post your question in the Office forum.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=officeitproprevious
Best Regards,
Erin

Restore default fonts?

I played with my fonts a little while back and I'd like to get back the default fonts. I can't find a restore "button" for that, so does anyone either have a list of the default settings, or a quick way to restore those defaults?

Your Mailbox font and Message list font are Lucida Grande, and your Message font is Helvetica; you pick the size that works best for you.

Restore default Font

it's possible to restore to fonts to default?

when I have restore the fonts to the default, how can I recover the custom fonts? (fonts that installed by Office 2008 & Adobe products)
That's a bit different than the initial question, which was to "restore fonts to default". Which I think most people would read as you only want the original OS X supplied fonts on your system.
If you placed the fonts you cleared out of the two folders noted above into another folder, you can just drag and drop the non OS X fonts back into the /Library/Fonts/ folder. If you'd rather have pristine copies of the fonts you mention, you can grab them from the original disks.
For the Adobe fonts, I'm looking on the CS4 Design Premium disks, though you should be able to find them pretty much the same way with any of the CS applications. Insert disk 1 (that's where mine were). Double click the desktop icon of the DVD. Double click the application icon, then the folder "payloads". That folder may be on a different disk, depending on what Adobe software you have, but if you find "payloads" on that disk, the next folder to open is "AdobeFontsAll". In that folder, double click the disk image "AdobeFontsAll.dmg" to open it. Now open the folder "Assets" and then "contents". Drag and drop all of the fonts from the disk image "contents" folder to the /Library/Fonts/ folder of the hard drive.
For Office 2008, insert the installation disk and run the installer. When you get to the Installation point, click on the Customize button. Uncheck "Microsoft Office 2008" and "Dock Icons", so only "Office Fonts" is checked. Click the Install button.

How can I restore default fonts?

Today I installed a Greasemonkey script called Gmail Super Clean in Firefox and I installed these; http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/misc/macfonts.html new fonts as well. After doing this the fonts on my system have been very screwy i.e. there are mixes of Arial and Times New Roman on several apps and I am seeing what I think is Hebrew text on all of my iTunes library as well as on any text I type into the Google.com. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get back my default fonts for the whole system or at least stop seeing foreign languages. Thanks for any info or help.

Re-install the font packages. You can see which ones you have installed with
pacman -Q font
You could probably just do this:
pacman -S $(pacman -Qqes font)
It may re-install a few packages unnecessarily, but it should include all the currently installed font packages.
Last edited by Xyne (2011-02-02 13:49:36)

Restoring Default Fonts After Installation Issues

I tried to install a bunch of fonts on my new MacBook Pro. When I was installing them it warned me that a few fonts had problems. Then it hung up for several minutes before crashing. I would very much like to get my machine back to the default factory-installed fonts. Is there a simple/fast way to do this without messing up anything?

Okay, here's what I learned from AppleCare.
Before doing this go to Library>Fonts and drag the fonts folder to your desktop to back it up. Then proceed with the following.
1. Go to Applications>Utilities>Directory Utility.
2. Enable the Root User by going to Edit>Enable Root User.
3. Log out and log back in as the Root User.
4. Go to Root's home folder>Library>Fonts.
5. Trash the fonts folder.
6. Log out and log back in as your normal user.
7. The fonts should rebuild themselves.
8. Be sure to go back to Applications>Utilities>Directory Utility and disable the root user to prevent other problems.

Reinstalling Default Fonts in Mountain Lion

Hi,
After buying the new iMac and have used it for two day I noticed that some files were in the Trash folder including the Fonts folder (don't ask me how they got there becuase I would swear I didn't move them). Since I didn't know where the Fonts folder belones to (system or user folder) I search on the internet and some people sugested doing a restore using Font Book (File>Restore Standard Fonts), but this made it worse since when it when and check it deletes the existing folders so now I only have the folder that was in the trash and I'm for sure missing one folder.
Is there a way to reinstall the default fonts in Mountain Lion without reinstalling the operating system?
This is the only thing I found but this will reinstall the OS.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4201528?start=0&tstart=0
Thanks a lot

You can use FontBook to find and delete duplicates.
Have you checked for updates for your iWork?
I did use FontBook to delete the duplicates.
The applications were working fine before the reinstall, I checked for updates but it doesn’t show any for these applications.
My problem with this is that I cannot reinstall these applications since I have them in a DVD and my computer doesn’t have a DVD drive. I installed them sharing the DVD drive from my old MacBook but I sold it two days ago, the only thing I have is an Acer laptop but I don’t know if it is possible to share the drive.
Is there a way to somehow put my DVDs in a USB drive, so I can install them without needing a DVD drive (assuming I can barrow my nephews Mac which has a DVD drive)?
Thanks a lot for your help!

Restoring the default font set

I recently installed a large collection of fonts and have since noticed an incredible decrease in my system performance. So, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to get back to the default font installation set without having to completely restore my computer? I may or may not have a backup of the system before I installed all of the fonts, I've likely made a new backup since then. I'm using Linotype FontExplorer X to manage fonts and I'm worried that this app also has something to do with the font problems on my system. Could anyone shed light on what exactly FontExplorer does with my fonts that OS X wouldn't do by itself?
Thanks!

FontExplorer like most other font managers allow you to collect specific fonts into groups that can be activated or deactivated according to need. This helps reduce the OS load of having to handle all the fonts that are installed in the several fonts folders.
For more on font management I suggest you visit the User Tips Library and read the tips on font management.

TS1717 restoring default factory settings without itunes as both may have malware

How can I restoring default factory settings without itunes on my ipod 1 and ipod 3rd generation, as both may have malware aswell as 3 laptops, 2 mobile, TV snd BluRay Browser.
any advice will be greatly appreciated.
have tried to disinfect with Kaspersky products but the malware just overwrites everything that is put into the p.c. so I need to use just the pad itself, that is, of course, if it allows me access.
theres nothing like a ipad scorned, ask my weary eyes. cheers

yep, unfortunately can't reset without the passcode either.
With regards to doing a restore, do you mean:
open itunes on my computer
click on my device on the left
go to the device summary
click restore
it then asks if i want to back up before i restore (to which i say no)
then it asks me if i'm sure I want to restore to factory settings and that all of me media and data will be erased and replaced with the newest version ( to which I say yes)
then it takes about 90 mins to do this but when I look at my phone, everything is exactly the same.
Am I missing something? Obviously I'm technologically challenged, but I HAVE to get to the bottom of this!

Restoring default console font size

I recently performed a long overdue series of updates, and now I'm facing the same font size issue that was discussed in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96768
Now I've seen this page, which talks about changing the font and the size: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … fault_font
But the thing is I actually like the font, it's just the size that I'm trying to change. When the system starts to boot, the size is great. It's only after "waiting for udev uevents to be processed" has finished that the font gets tiny. So I know the right settings are somewhere in there, I just don't know where to keep them the way they are without getting changed.
I have a sneaking suspicion the fix is easy, I'm just missing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Last edited by Infrared (2012-06-03 02:49:31)

jasonwryan wrote:
Instructions for changing the default console font are on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … fault_font
As far as I can tell, the default font is called, oddly enough, default - and if you look in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts you will see only two options: 8x16 and 8x9 - use setfont to confirm.
If neither of those is large enough after KMS kicks in, you might try one of the other older school fonts in that directory.
Oddly enough, it is called default, haha. Played around with a couple of the font settings, but what wound up happening was that it would load the font, and then after ""waiting for udev uevents to be processed" finished, the font got tiny again.
So it might be a resolution thing. Will look into that.
Gusar wrote:When this comes up (this thread is by far not the first one on this subject), the reaction is always advising to change the font. Never to change the resolution. Yet another one of the weird phenomenons I find so interesting.
Suggestions on best method to do so?
Last edited by Infrared (2012-06-04 01:46:15)

How can I restore default settings for font stacks in Dreamweaver CC 2014?

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