ThoughtfulDesigner

Thanks for the followup. I'm on Monterey, and there are a hundred or more Noto fonts, and a hundred or more other unwanted fonts as well. This may be addressed in newer OS, but I hesitate to upgrade b/c I also have music software, Logic Pro and various plugins, and they frequently have conflicts with MacOS version upgrades; researching the real compatibility is a significant nuisance, so... Anyway, I found a useful solution for fonts with Affinity: Affinity Designer has an extra menu next to fonts, in the inspector, which has a few font groupings, and by selecting "English" the extra Noto and non-Noto fonts magically go away. This is great, for me, as I'm only working with English language at present. For anyone working with some-but-not-all foreign languages, I found that Apple's Font Book utility lets you create groups of fonts (and it doesn't burden you with the multitude of extra Noto-etc fonts) -- and these groups from Fontbook will appear in Affinity Designer's font grouping dropdown menu! Very useful.

I agree this is a major nuisance -- the font menu in Publisher is almost unusable with an unbelievable number of variations of Noto Sans in the list, and other mysterious foreign language fonts, which might be useful for those publishing in Thai every day, but is a real pain in the neck for the rest of us. These might be system fonts from Apple, but they're presence is a complete nuisance. I'm deciding whether to buy Publisher and this issue is really annoying.