okay so i have this issue with gimp and fonts thats been lasting for a few years now. iam desperate to fix it after doing so many things and asking in so many different places and so far no help at all. so i mite as well ask here.

i installed some custom fonts i made into windows font folder, but i either deleted them, or made some changes to the font that required me to replace/ reinstall them.

UNFORTUNATELY despite deleting them from EVERY SINGLE FONT FOLDER i could find. they wont go away. they only appear in gimp when its opened.

ive tried almost EVERYTHING to delete these hidden fonts that dont exist in my computers opinion, but gimp believes they do and is even still able to fully use them.

ive tried:

control panel -appearance - fonts - but none of them exist there, so i cant delete them.

c: -windows - fonts - basically the same folder, and still the fonts don't exist

deleting every gimp font folder i could find. also the gimp font folders are empty.

i uninstalled gimp so many times, going so far as to hunt any remaining left overs to delete

going into the computer registry with win button + R, they don't exist in that font file either.

using a command prompt to try and delete them, but still the comp says it cant find them.

deleting gimps font config -which deleted any ability to read fonts, and even after fixing it, they were STILL THERE!

deleting all the folders that gimp reads fonts from. but gimp still says it finds the fonts in the c: - windows - font file. yet i cannot see them, even when i press unhide font just to see if i can. and i still cant see anything.

i have like 10 copys of 1 font showing in gimp because i made a little tweak and replaced it and its really pissing me off now.

system restore is out of the question as this has been going on for YEARS now. i think my only salvation is a factory reset, which i absolutely dont want to do just to fix this small annoying font issue.

I hate to say this, but the list of things you tried does not seem to include clicking the "refresh" button at the bottom of the Fonts dialog
dock. In my installation it's marked with a circle-arrow icon.

You will also find a list of all the directories the GIMP looks in for fonts at Edit > Preferences > Folders > Fonts. Looking at that and changing it if/as necessary might be worth a try.

:o/

Steve

ive tried the refresh button many times, it does nothing for me. and i even tried a shift - reset and still the deleted fonts are there. ive tried both the yellow and blue arrow ones on the separated windows.

i tried Edit > Preferences > Folders > Fonts as well, and again nothing. i deleted both the folders and checked. no change. deleted both and replaced them with an entirely new folder with fonts and checked. no change. selected the C: - windows - fonts folder. which is in the picture. and gimp is magically getting the fonts from, those highlighted ones, but when i go to the font folder out of gimp, the fonts don't exist.

gimp had been grabbing fonts that my system says i deleted, even though gimp was still able to find them from SOMEWHERE. but i FINALLY found them using %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts in WIN + R which showed all fonts versions new and old and all the fonts that were "uninstalled", but wernt.

now they are officially gone from my gimp font folder. and i dont have 15 duplicate slight variations of a font floating around.

iam posting this just encase some other poor soul with this battle finds peace.

Could you have *hidden* the fonts rather than *deleted* them?

why? i didint want them, i tried to uninstall them originally. many of them were just the same font with slight corrections. so i had 15 variations of a single font with a few corrections.

the fonts were ENTIRELY hidden from the whole system. i couldn't find them anywhere else BUT in that one root file and i couldn't even select them in any regular font folder because they "didint exist". no matter of search could find them, not even a search through the command prompt could.

once i found them i got rid of them, since they've been sticking around for years even after i "uninstalled" them from almost very point on my computer. iam happy to see them all gone now.