Stop Font List from returning to top

Go to Preferences/ Type, and set the number of recent fonts to 0. That worked for me 🙂

I am using Illustrator 27.7. I have changed the "Number of Recent Fonts" to 0, and it solved it.

I no longer see a suggested font at the top of the list.

Just wanted to say thanks and share that it worked for me. 🌞🙌

what has worked for me is slecting the lettering you have typed in then clicking up in font name and using the up and down arrow keys and pushing down a bunch of times then when you go up and hit the drop down arrow it stays on what font you have selscted in the list its a pain but it works

Thankfully setting the recent fonts to "0" and then *restarting* Illustrator seems to have fixed the issue! Though I have found, if a selected font does not have a name displayed in English, then when you click the drop down box again to keep searching it will start back at the top alphabetically.

Tiffani

As many other issues that have been bothering me for years if not decades. [Abuse removed by moderator] fix some of the issues. Everytime I am making a logo and I want to go through my fonts this nosense behaviour shows up. Still with all the milliiiiiiiion updates you make every month you cannot fix this. It feels that I am back in computer prehistory when I use your apps. In my opinion is because you don't have serious competition ... it's like those "relaxed" people that work for the state, why to bother to make an effort. Or those hotels or restaurants near airports ... anyways the costumers are not coming back, doesn't matter there still plenty of newies still going to buy your faulty product and keep you afloat.

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I noticed if you use the down and up keys on your keyboard after selecting any font, it will stay in the area of the last font you were using. Even if I selected the font from the recent selection. 

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.

I am really annoyed at the change to this also. I hate the Recent Fonts "feature". It's like going backwards to some old Microsoft Publisher feature or something. It's really awful. Adobe, PLEASE go back to the way it was. You are making our projects take longer because of all the scrolling we have to do now. Maybe I don't want to use a recent font! As a designer, I try multiple fonts and decide I don't like any of them, so I have to keep scrolling and scrolling over and over again. What a pain!

Rats. I saw this thread and thought there was light at the end of the tunnel; I guess not. I wish I hadn't updated. It's driving me nuts. I am working on a whole cluster of logos, and I need to go down my fonts to try this-and-that on each one, and I keep getting popped right back to the top of the list. Maddening. Adobe is supposed to be more intuitive than this.

What you could do is mark certain fonts as Favorites and Filter your fonts to just those Favorites at the top of the Font Family popup menu.

Here's a video:

http://www.jeffwitchel.net/2013/11/applying-the-fonts-you-want-faster/

Favorites is discussed at about 3:20 into the video.