Patent ID: 8555162

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a font manager, notification from an operating system of a computing apparatus that a first application is being launched; prior to launching of the first application being completed, interrupting the launch of the first application; determining a first font set associated with the first application, the first font set including one or more fonts; resuming launch of the first application after activating each of the one or more fonts included in the first font set; receiving notification from the operating system indicating that the first application has been terminated; determining that the one or more fonts of the first font set is not in use by a second application; and deactivating the one or more fonts of the first font set, wherein deactivating the one or more fonts includes hiding the first font set, wherein hiding the first font set includes preventing font status messages for the one or more fonts from being sent to one or more processes executing in the operating system.