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djp-nyc
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January 10, 2013
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How to organize / group fonts in Photoshop

  • January 10, 2013
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When I open fonts drop down menu inside of Photoshop, I have over 300 fonts listed in alphabetical order, most of which I don't use. 

I installed about 20 fonts that I like. But how do I group them together? After typing and selecting text in Photoshop, I want to quickly flip through my 20 best fonts collection (with up and down arrow) to see which font looks better. Is there a way to do it?

I tried deleting all fonts from Library, and leaving only my 20 fonts there, but that didn't work out, because text in other applications started looking funny.

Please let me know if there is a better solution.

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    解決に役立った回答 Chris Cox

    Thanks for suggestions guys, but 3rd party applications like FontAgent Pro or Suitcase Fusion would not solve this. I spoke to tech support of both companies. They told me that there is no way to organize my favorite fonts and group them together, so that they would be all in the same place in Photoshop's font drop down menu.

    I am wondering if one of the (very technical) Adobe representatives can suggest a different way of achieving my goal. Adobe people, please respond...

    Font Book Collections show up in all applications on my Mac, except Adobe. Furthermore, when I disable fonts in Font Book, they still show up in Photoshop. So how does one keep track of favorite fonts?

    I tried renaming the fonts, but that didn't help, as they still come out under their old names in Photoshop. I tried removing fonts that I don't use from Library Fonts folder, but it made the text in other applications look funny, so I had to move them back.

    How do I keep track of my favorite fonts in Photoshop?

    Please tell me there is a better way than creating a note and writing down names of favorite fonts for future use.

    Anyone? Hello? lol


    There is no easy way for you to sort or change the Photoshop font menu.

    Photoshop will present fonts sorted by script/language, then alphabetically.

    But if you disable fonts in the OS, they won't appear in Photoshop.  Photoshop gets the font list from the OS.

    Font Book Collections will only show up on small apps that use the simple Apple font APIs, and not on professional applications.

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    jrricky
    Participant
    February 11, 2021

    Came here to say even though Adobe hasn't added one to the Font dropdown, it is nice to learn you can use Libraries to create different groups of font characters. The great thing about this too is you get to just click the fonts in the library group to see the changes apply to what you wrote.

     

    Thanks,

    jrricky

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    ianc99619533
    Participant
    May 12, 2017

    Adobe should go through these old threads and update them when they add features that resolve the problem. Anyways, this thread came up first when I was searching google, and it took me a long time to figure this out

    They've added a new "star" feature in Adobe CC, in the font drop down (on the left of the fonts)

    Add a star to your favorite fonts and then filter by the stars by clicking the star icon in the top right of the font drop down. Now, only your favorite fonts will show. This is a definite time saver for me!

      Kelly McCathran
      Kelly McCathran
      Inspiring
      September 22, 2015

      Yes, I would agree using a CC Library for your favorite fonts would work great! You could also create a library for: Serif, Sans Serif, Script, and other "flavors"

      • Tip: Create a Paragraph or Character style for the most common way you use the font, before you add it to the library. That way if you use it in a web or mobile mock-up it is globally editable. (Window > Paragraph Styles or Window > Character Styles) for example:
              Museo Sans 100, Size p18, Space After: p12, color: #999
      • To make sure when you use a font, with the style you created, hold down Alt or Option as you drag from the CC Library to your Photoshop document
      • InDesign and Illustrator have Font Favorites, which will put fonts you mark as favorite at the top of your Font list, that would be a GREAT feature request for Photoshop

      Adobe Feature Request:  http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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        ThomasEdward
        Participating Frequently
        October 13, 2014

        Thanks for the comment about using a library. Just inspired me to make a cc library with my favourite fonts

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        layerhero
        Participant
        September 1, 2014

        Have a look at Font Hero, it is a font organizer/manage plugin for Photoshop.

        http://www.layerhero.com/fonthero/

        Below is one screenshot.

        P.S. I'm the stuff of Layerhero Software. I recommend this because there's no such an App on the market. We had talked with more than 520 designers about this requirement, after that, we developed Font Hero.

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          DonAndress
          Participant
          September 1, 2014

          Hi there.

          Thanks a lot, I'm gonna have a look. It sounds interesting.

          Mylenium
          Mylenium
          Legend
          January 10, 2013

          font grouping is eitehr built-in into the fonts to define font families or indeed requires dedicated font management tools. Adobe tools only rely on your operating system stuff and don't do any font management on their own...

          Mylenium

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          djp-nyc作成者
          Participating Frequently
          January 10, 2013

          Thanks @Mylenium for restating the obvious. I was looking for workaround suggestions.

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            emil emil
            Inspiring
            January 10, 2013

            Can't offer you much help but can only mention how bad the font technology is in this respect. In my opinion the font usage interfaces available nowadays  are the most primitive and undeveloped than any other software solutions.

            Initially, decades ago, the primary goal of the font managers was system performance. In the early desktop computers even a few dozen fonts would slow down considerably the system performance. Nowadays the computers are so much faster that I can have thousands of fonts installed without any problem. So, the major advantage of font managers is lost and I have to use them for organization purposes only. However because they are external means to a problem that needs to be solved internally on a system and program level, they are very inefficient. You have to organize your fonts externally and load or unload with another program all the time in order to have manageable font menu. However this doesn't affect the system fonts and many program fonts which are a number large enough to clutter and interfere with any external arrangement. Basically a font manager allows you to organize your fonts externally where you can choose which fonts you want or don't want to use, then the font manager  automates the installing and uninstalling of these fonts in the system fonts folder and thus limits the number of fonts that appear in the font menus. Font managers don't have access to and can't sort the font menu in anyway.

            Ideally, this problem should be solved on a system level. The perfect interface I imagine would be user created sub-folders in the system Fonts folder where a font or its alias can be put and this would be the way the fonts should appear in the Fonts panels and menus of the programs with collapsible sub-menus.

              station_two
              station_two
              Inspiring
              January 10, 2013

              You'll need a robust font manager.  On the Mac, I would sggest FontAgent Pro (FAP).

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                djp-nyc作成者
                Participating Frequently
                January 10, 2013

                Thanks @statio_two. How would FAP help? Will it give a way to group fonts together inside of Photoshop's fonts drop down menu?

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