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Jpeger
Known Participant
July 26, 2023

P: Text size isn't being remembered between documents

  • July 26, 2023
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In previous versions of Photoshop. The Font and size were remembered between documents. Now the font is remembered, but the size is automatically changing to 38.25 pt

I would like it at 10pt, and remember that it needs to stay 10pt.  I remember a bug a few Photoshop versions back, resetting the font to Myriad Pro each time. It's acting just like that, only this time, it's the font size, not the font type. The fix for that was to turn on "fill with placeholder text", but that isn't working for this issue.

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25 replies

Adobe Employee
June 4, 2024

@michael_kay_  I suggest you upgrade Photoshop to the latest version 25.9. The preference is available in the version. If you want to stay with 25.7, follow the instruction I posted previously. The copy is below.

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Photoshop 24.7 or later calculates the default font size based on document resolution and zoom factor. 

To disable this feature and return to the legacy behavior, set "DefaultFontSize 0" in PSUserConfig.txt.

Please read:

Then, scroll up to the top of page to see how you can set up PSUserConfig.txt file.
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Known Participant
June 3, 2024

I am using Photoshop 25.7 and do not see any such preference checkbox under Preferences -> Type Options.

 

My font always default to 25pt size.  I'm just surprised there isn't any way to set a default font.  Has anyone found a solution to this?  

Rick Spaulding -
Brainiac
May 21, 2024

updating status

Adobe Employee
May 21, 2024

@Jpeger and other users affected by the change;

 

Sorry, this notification should have been sent out earlier.
 
With Photoshop 25.9, the control has been moved to the Preferences dialog.
Open Preferences > Type. Uncheck "Set default font size automatically" to get your desired effect.
 
Jpeger
JpegerAuthor
Known Participant
May 21, 2024
You are the best! Thank you so much for answering that. I was getting so frustrated that I had to wind my version back. But adding it to the preferences Is perfect.

Thank you again!


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Jpeger
JpegerAuthor
Known Participant
May 21, 2024

It's broken again with this new version of Photoshop 25.9 - Not even the DefaultFontSize 0 trick fixes it.  This is getting so annoying,

Pete.Green
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 17, 2024

Updating the status

PECourtejoie
Community Expert
April 7, 2024

I was also puzzled by the change of text size when I opened another document. I would strongly prefer a preference, and/or a way to set the default size, as character styles are document specific, it seems.

Known Participant
March 17, 2024

Why should professionals with many thousands of hours of earned experience making these custom choices suddenly be required to root around on the internet in order to dig up and apply a patch to the software?   It was sloppy for Adobe to suddenly enforce a  arbitrary default standard that overrides our own years of experience with the traditional default “sticky” behavior without including a preference setting to restore classic behavior?

New Participant
March 10, 2024

FIX IT please.

New Participant
February 7, 2024

Help does anyone have any tips that may help this text solution in PS 2024. When I use the text tool and change the font size for example to 500 and then open another document to use the same size it somehow changes back to default. Where the older versions of PS never did this. I tried to reset that particular tool but no changes . Has anyone had the same issue and resolved it?

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
February 7, 2024

@naccosme what happens if you change the font settings in the tool without any documents open?