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February 13, 2023
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ON/OFF Toggle for Fontlist (last used fonts)

  • February 13, 2023
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Please include a Legacy-Version of the Font list (the List you can choose your fonts from in the Typography/Character-Window).

 

The current state of the list (it is like that since a couple of years) is impractical when it comes to typography exploration. I always have to learn this the hard way. The way you have to pick fonts right now competes with an efficient workflow.

 

In an older version, you could go through the font list via arrow keys on your keyboard (or use your mouse and scroll down; whatever you prefer). You duplicated the textbox, when you found a matching font for your project and proceed exploring - starting from the last font where you stopped in its original position on the alphabet. So, you found a font which starts with the letter »N« for example, and after duplicating and going down the list further, it kept proceeding with the last font you've chosen in the exact position on the list (N ... O ... P .... Q ....... Z)

 

How the font list works right now is, that after you duplicated a matching font, you're still on the last font you picked BUT the app teleports this font to the very top of the list, making it so that if you start going down with the arrow keys, you will start at the very top of the list, so at fonts with the letter »A...« instead (N ... A ... B .... C ....... Z).

 

This is pretty unpractical, as you have to look for the original position of the last chosen font manually in the list to proceed your exploration.

There seems to be no way to turn this »last used font«-function off. However, there is a workaround for this, but it's way more complicated and inefficient than the original version. Please include an ON/OFF toggle. As a graphic designer, I can't see any practical use in showing me the last 5 fonts I've used at the very top.

If someone uses the same 5 fonts every time, they probably know the names anyway and can easy navigate to them by typing the first few letters OR their used fonts are already in the document the've opend, so they don't need to search them anyway. BUT searching for a couple of new fonts for a new project in a pretty large font list and have to start all over again every time you found a font is not practical at all.

 

An ON/OFF-toggle to turn this »last used fonts« function off seems to be a easy fix.