Illustrator Character Palette

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December 15, 2017
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Use to be that when you had a "type object" selected and opened the character palette, it would open directly on the font in use.

In fact it sill does but at the top of the list in "most recents" and not in its place in the global alphabetically sorted list. It does'nt sound like much of a problem bit it actually screws up my whole workflow when trying to find just the right typeface for a job.

Any way to work around that and get back to the ay it has allways been in previous versions? Or did I just change a setting without knowing?

illustrator cc2018

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John Mensinger

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jonathanl84124173 wrote
...my whole workflow when trying to find just the right typeface for a job.

You may be set in your ways, but that's a lot of time and touches for the sake previewing your specimen in various fonts. There are quite few easily-acquired font management apps that let you type your sample and preview it in a scroll-able list of all your installed fonts or subsets you create. Then you can make selections among them to facilitate your narrowing down of the choices. I use NexusFont for this on my Windows machines. Could save you a lot of that work.

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jonathanl84124173Author

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Of course I'm using "Suitcase" wich let's me preview a word or name in a specific font but it does not allow for the fine tuning I do on a daily basis like seeing one font in a logo, or how font X for the name lives with font Z for the tagline.

manal shanableh

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Add to favorite (Star icon) is not available on Illustrator CC 2015.3

but available on CC 2017 and CC 2018

so if you use older version, you can use Type> recent fonts

Myra Ferguson

Community Expert

I'm not sure what your workflow is, but Illustrator does some handy tricks when it comes to selecting fonts. You can filter by font class. If you have certain fonts you use more frequently, you favorite them. Click on the star to the left to favorite them and then filter by favorite so that only your favorites appear. You can also filter by fonts you add through Typekit.

If you want to browse the fonts to try them on your selected type, make sure the text box is selected, select the font drop down menu and then use the up or down arrow keys to apply that font in the list to your text.

I don't think I helped any with how Illustrator displays most recently selected fonts, but maybe these tips give you some other options for navigating and selecting fonts.

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jonathanl84124173Author

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Using the arows to navigate down the list is what I want but because it brings me back to the top (most recent) fonts, I have to scroll down the list to go to the next font. In the image, red is where the palette opens to and green is where it used to and what I want.