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sthammar
Inspiring
October 19, 2017
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Don't want to start at the top of the font list every time

  • October 19, 2017
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if you open a font menu when you have some text selected, the current font will be selected in the recent fonts part of the menu at the top. So you have to scroll back down to see it in the context of all your other fonts. This is so so so annoying if you want to brows through a long list of fonts, when you yet don't know which one you want to apply. or just look through and test different fonts. How do i get the font list to be like before and start from the place where the font is listed and not from the top.?

In indesign you can set number of recent fonts view to 0 but not in illustrator, så it will always start at the top.

    Correct answer studio mac3t4362085

    Also put recent fonts to 0 in preferences

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    studio mac3t4362085
    studio mac3t4362085
    Participant
    May 1, 2018

    Instead of clicking on the down arrow in the character box, click on the name and use the up and down arrows to scroll through the fonts. Problem with this though is when you come across a font that doesn't work with what you have written!!!  You have to press that down arrow!!!  At least this will cut out some of the problem.

      studio mac3t4362085
      studio mac3t4362085Correct answer
      Participant
      May 1, 2018

      Also put recent fonts to 0 in preferences

        MOBADSOLUTIONS
        MOBADSOLUTIONS
        Participant
        October 16, 2018

        This solved the issue for me. Thank you Studio Mac.

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        tomasr76371696
        Participant
        April 24, 2018

        I've been using Illustrator for quite some time now and it never was so anoying, it seems they decided to use the "magnificent and friendly" user design microsoft tortures their clients with.

        Thanks a lot adobe

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          sthammarAuthor
          Inspiring
          October 22, 2017

          I have now tried everything i can think of but its still jumps to the top of the list. Why can't you chose 0 in recent fonts like you can in in indesign, photoshop for example....

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            AndyQ
            Known Participant
            December 19, 2017

            Agreed, this is giving me the s**ts too. I've got a huge font list and I want to scroll down through the list trying out various fonts, but the list always restarts from the top. This is especially painful as I've got some large font collections that do not have subgroupings, but lots of style/variants that are listed as separate fonts (whatever the terminology is - they're the top-level grouping).  I've resorted to using Photoshop or Corel for selecting my typefaces, then returning to Illustrator to make the final settings. As you've mentioned, the other annoyance is not being able to get rid of the "favourites". I'd also like to HIDE any Typekit fonts, in cases where I only want to use fonts that I have perpetual licences for, but the Typekit "filter" has no inverse. There are some other weird groupings at the top of my font list I can't figure out either...they seem pinned to the top, not listed alphabetically.

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