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alexseasons
alexseasons
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March 13, 2019
Question

Fonts always start at beginning when cycling through fonts

  • March 13, 2019
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This is kind of hard to explain but when I have a text layer selected and then i try to cycle through the fonts in the list to see which one I like, I use the arrow keys up and down to go through them. However it keeps restarting at the top of the list whenever I do this. If I started in the S's for fonts and tried to cycle, it would cycle back to the A's again and start over. Any ideas on why this is happening?

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    Bojan Živković11378569
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    Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
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    March 13, 2019

    Can you give us more details? Which version of Photoshop and which OS? Steps that are taken to cycle through fonts.

    I am trying to reproduce in Photoshop CC 2019 on Win using this method: expand font list then navigate to some font in the middle, hover over font to see preview then continue using keyboard and everything works just fine.

    alexseasons
    alexseasonsAuthor
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    March 13, 2019

    Sure no problem, I'm using windows 10 photoshop CC 2018. I can open the font list and hover over the fonts and they switch but I'm talking about clicking on a type layer and then clicking on the type tool. Then I click on the font name and highlight it, and then use the arrow down key to start scrolling through fonts. This way I don't have the font preview dropdown open distracting me and I can see the font switch as I arrow down. This is when if I select a font in the middle of the stack, like a font that starts with S, if I select that font and then use arrow down, it will jump back to the top where the A's start again.

    Bojan Živković11378569
    Community Expert
    Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 13, 2019

    Do you see any difference between single click to highlight active font versus multiple clicks to do the same job? It seems that everything works fine with single click to highlight font. I am on Win 10 with the latest and greatest Photoshop. The only thing that I could reproduce is that Photoshop start cycling from the top most listed or recently used fonts when multiple clicking in text field with active font to select it That's the only thing that I found checking and trying to reproduce.

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