A lightweight utility that helps keep your dynamically created fonts under control in Garry's Mod.
This addon was originally created after noticing that some servers - especially those with many addons - repeatedly recreate the same fonts for no reason, bloating the engine's font list. By preventing duplicate font creation, this tool reduced the total number of active fonts on my setup from around 800 down to ~100 with lazy creation on, and ~700 lazy creation off.
Fewer duplicate fonts means:
- Faster load times (skips unnecessary font creation)
- Better memory management (avoids excessive font data in the engine)
- Improved stability overall
Make sure to drop the folder in addons/GFonts/lua/autorun/!!!!!0_gfonts.lua
Important: If you change the file name it might break as it must be loaded first before everything else!
gfonts_status - shows the current status
lua_dumpfonts (vanilla command, u can run it before adding gfonts to measure) - shows all currently loaded fonts in the engine