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| Why Do I Have So Many Fonts with Similar Names? An often-asked question is "Why do I have so many fonts with similar names? I have Arial, Arial Bold, Arial Bold Italic, etc. Can't I bold and italicize every font? Why not just keep the Arial font and remove the rest?"
In many cases, you can just keep Arial and file away the other like-named fonts (see the MalekTips trick for filing away unneeded fonts). If you have too many fonts on your system, this may be necessary to increase system performance. Doing so, however, may cause display problems.
Arial, like most other Windows fonts, is a True-Type font. One of the features of this technology is the ability for Windows to bold, italicize, bold and italicize, etc. every font. When you ask Windows to bold an Arial font, it can do so - but Windows must make a guess on how the bolded Arial font will look. If you have a font called "Arial Bold" on your system, Windows does not have to make a guess - it can specifically use the "Arial Bold" font, giving you a more pleasant display. Plus, some older software may not be able to do this guessing, making it so you can not bold or italicize certain fonts when desired.
Personally, I keep these extra fonts - but the choice is up to you.
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