System Fonts

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System fonts are critical for your system, without them your system might become unstable. Within MainType you are not allowed to uninstall, unload or delete active system fonts. Although Microsoft has no public list of such fonts, MainType identifies these fonts as system fonts:

Font Family

Font Type

 

 

Marlett

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Courier

Raster font

MS Sans Serif

Raster font

MS Serif

Raster font

System

Raster font

Terminal

Raster font

 

Although you can uninstall, unload or delete every other font, we recommend you keep these fonts installed:

Font Family

Font Type

 

 

Arial

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Courier New

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Symbol

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Tahoma

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Times New Roman

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Wingdings

TrueType font or OpenType font with TrueType outlines

Modern

Raster font

Small fonts

Raster font

Symbol

Raster font

Roman

Vector font

Script

Vector font