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P: Bring back Font Anti Aliasing Pulldown in the Type tool bar

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
August 28, 2025
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There used to be a Pull Down Menu in the Font Tool bar that lets you select the anti-aliasing type. I noticed it is gone since Photoshop 26.10 on Windows. Has it moved somewhere else or is this a bug?

Using Windows 10.

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Pete.Green

@Hannes Drexl and all, keen eye! Thanks for bringing this up.

This was an intentional change since there has been a bit of UI creep in the tool options bar from both the left and right sides and some options were starting to overlap. We made a decision to remove the anti-aliasing dropdown from tool options to reduce this overlap for folks with lower monitor resolution according to minimum system requirements.

As some have mentioned, these options are still available in Character panel, Properties panel, Right click context menu, and Type menu.

So my question I'd love to ask the group posting here,

how important is the anti-aliasing options in the Tool Options bar to you and your workflows?

Regards,

Pete

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I've noticed this as well just now, followed by 10 minutes of questioning my sanity because I knew for a fact the dropdown was there a few days ago … thanks for confirming it. I'd agree it seems more like a deliberate change on Adobe’s part rather than a bug but who the f… knows what the thinking behind their updates is anymore. This menu has been part of the horizontal font menu for >10 years so why change it now, without notice. I don't understand it.