New Feature: Enhanced Font browser is now in Photoshop beta

[Pete.Green]

Hi everyone!

We've made some improvements to the experience of browsing and selecting the best fonts for your project.

    

You can access the enhanced font browser in 3 places:
1. Options bar
2. Character panel
3. Properties panel (when a Type layer is selected)

What's new

1. “Your fonts” tab provides access to the currently installed fonts on your system or from Adobe Fonts.
2. "More fonts" tab allows you to easily filter, browse, and preview fonts from the Adobe Fonts library directly on the canvas without the need to install them first.
3. Clear All button lets you remove any filters you've applied such as, Adobe Fonts, Font Class, additional Font Tags, Favorites, Similar, and Language filters.

Feedback and votes

Please try this new font browsing experience and vote via the Beta Feedback panel to let us know if it's ready to be released.

Additionally, please let us know any feedback or ideas for improvement you have here in this thread!

Thank you!

[avalent]

You're not alone. This is one of the worst features in a long while.

• Completely breaks font search - no more typing in a font name and hitting Enter to apply it.
• Font search doesn't work in 'More Fonts' tab.
• More Fonts is incredibly slow since there's 30,000 fonts loading on the fly.
• Google Fonts are sprinkled throughout and can't be filtered or searched by name.

Whoever greenlit this in the state it's in has likely faked their UX certificate. 

[avalent]

This is one of the worst features in a long while. Are you seriously releasing this as-is?

• Breaks font search - no more typing in a font name and hitting Enter to apply resulting font.
• Font search doesn't work in 'More Fonts' tab, rendering the 30,000 fonts useless.
• More Fonts is slow since there's 30,000 fonts loading on the fly. Every single time.
• Google Fonts are sprinkled in throughout and can't be filtered or searched by name.

This feels like it was thought up and implemented by someone who doesn't even use Photoshop. Completely workflow breaking and brings nothing good to the table in practice, only in theory. And some very poor UX theory that is. 

Please at least add the ability to revert to the old font browser and don't be sadistic.

The author of this thread comes off as confused in replying to everyone who's voicing the same grievances as I am. This can only lead me to be assured that the person, along with the team behind this feature, simply aren't designers and haven't checked this with actual designers using Photoshop. It's a really bad look. The font browser is one of the most fundamental parts of Photoshop.