Also old thread… but i am currently had the issue on doing some gimping and find out the same can be done with a single file in configs …
I was following some posts on the web and find that fontconfig has the option to <rejectfont>
Plus what i read in this post i was simple creating a list of all noto-fonts:
ls /usr/share/fonts/noto/ > noto.list
This will create a list of all not ttf files i used to create this fonts.conf to put under:
~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
first thing i was thinking… ? omg over 2000 fonts… thats a lot… and after i removed the ones i want to have all the regular noto fonts aside from the language specific variants still 1900 …
The issue is that they are not avaialable too for any apps ma yneed them like my Browser or chat where i may want it to show asian signs in uswernames and others… workaround is to start firefox with the defaults not using the user override:
FONTCONFIG_FILE=/etc/fonts/fonts.conf firefox-nightly
so it will have all fonts available…
Working for me but still a huzzle…