by Bob » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:41 am
I would not recommend installing a large number of fonts on your system unless you are also using a font management program. Large numbers of installed fonts can bog down your system and may even cause crashes. Programs like Premiere Elements will load all installed fonts into memory on startup and, at the very least, that will slow down program startup. On a 32-bit os or 32-bit application, you may have memory issues. You also wouldn't want to overwrite newer fonts with older fonts with the same file name. That can cause formatting errors and other strange behavior. Just because the file names are the same doesn't mean the fonts are identical.
I don't collect a lot of fonts so I don't use a font management program and so can't recommend one. I keep the fonts that came with the OS and installed programs, but keep the number of installed added fonts that I download to a minimum. I download those fonts to a common folder from which I can install when needed. The fonts I use all the time will stay installed, but the specialty ones that will only be used occasionally I'll uninstall after use. You can uninstall by going to Control Panel>Appearance and Personalization>Fonts. Select the font(s) to be uninstalled and delete. If you delete other fonts, be careful. You can make the system or applications that depend on them unusable.