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Why Is Adobe Fonts Discovery Still So Slow and Limited?

Forum|Forum|12 days ago
March 25, 2026
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Because there is no actual feature request option here, I’m posting this as a question: would it be possible to rethink the way Adobe Fonts browsing works?

Adobe Fonts has an excellent library, but the browsing experience is painfully inefficient. Rendering only a handful of fonts per page and forcing users to click through endless numbered pages makes discovery far slower than it should be. If infinite scroll is not possible, at least show far more results per page.

The Creative Cloud app is also missing essential functionality. The Adobe Fonts section should support real search and filtering by style, mood, and classification directly inside the app, without forcing users back to the website. Right now it feels incomplete.

The quick actions strip is another weak point: hiding actions behind side arrows adds friction to something that should be immediate.

This ecosystem has huge potential, but the current experience feels unfinished and unnecessarily time-consuming.

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

Even though the Adobe Fonts web site has certain limitations I prefer using the web site as opposed to adding Adobe Fonts directly from the fonts menu in an app like Adobe Illustrator.

I think the people in charge of developing the Adobe Fonts web site should do some oppositional research of other fonts web sites if they're not doing so already.

I agree more type families should be displayed per page. Some fonts web sites have settings to display specific numbers of fonts per page.

One feature I wish the Adobe Fonts web site had: a glyphs table for the fonts carried there. Sometimes I'll visit a site like MyFonts.com to see the glyphs layout of a type family before adding it at Adobe Fonts. But not every type family at Adobe Fonts is sold at MyFonts.com however. Some type companies removed their fonts from the MyFonts site in recent years and now only sell them directly thru their own respective web sites.

I also think more search categories should be offered. While it's fine to have categories like "clean," "futuristic," "fun," etc. it would also be helpful if fonts could be categorized in other more professional terms like "transitional," "old style," "modern," "grotesk," etc.

.random..Author

Inspiring

Thank you, but I think my point may have been misunderstood.

I was not talking about adding Adobe Fonts from the font menu inside apps like Illustrator or InDesign.

I was referring to two separate Adobe Fonts experiences:

1. The Adobe Fonts website
Here, my concern is the browsing model itself: too few font families shown per page, too much clicking through numbered pagination, and a generally slow discovery workflow.

2. The Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app, specifically its Adobe Fonts section
This is a separate issue. My point was that the Creative Cloud app should offer proper font discovery tools directly inside the app itself — including real search, better filtering, and style-based browsing — instead of forcing users back to the website.

So the request is not about managing fonts from inside Illustrator’s font menu. It is about improving both:

the website browsing experience
and the Adobe Fonts area inside the Creative Cloud desktop app

At the moment, both feel more limited than they should be, especially considering how large and valuable the Adobe Fonts library is.

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

I understood your point. Simply put, it's far more of a pain browsing for fonts inside an app like Illustrator or InDesign than it is to use the Adobe Fonts web site. Also, it's more of a pain managing fonts in one's CC account using the Creative Cloud desktop app than just using the Adobe Fonts web site.

The Adobe Fonts web site definitely has a lot of room for improvement, such as including some of the things I suggested earlier.

One of the biggest complaints about the fonts section in the Creative Cloud desktop app is the frustrating nature of the fonts list. There is no option to collapse the list into a families-only list. Every style of every family is expanded out, requiring far more scrolling. And the scrolling behavior of the fonts list is terrible on some device setups. I have a Wacom tablet on my home setup. The Wacom pen can hardly ever grab the disappearing scroll bar; I end up using the arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll the fonts list. That's really annoying when the fonts list is totally expanded, even if I have only a couple or so hundred fonts added.

Working with Adobe Fonts was actually easier when all the fonts management work in a CC account was done only with the Adobe Fonts web site. Font browsing inside apps like Illustrator is intolerably slow and pretty limiting. I don't think the functions of the Adobe Fonts web site need to be duplicated within the CC Desktop App. I just wish the developers would fix the frustrating issues with the fonts list. I'd like an always-visible scroll bar, rather than one that disappears when my pen tries to click on it. Collapse all styles into a shorter, families-only list by default. Or have a setting to toggle between those views.

Tarun Saini

Community Manager

Hi @.random..,

Thanks for taking the time to share such detailed feedback — this is really helpful. I’d request you share your feedback here- https://adobefonts.uservoice.com/forums/940222-adobe-fonts-feature-requests-and-feedback, as this page is being monitored by our product team.

Regards,

Tarun

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