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How to organize / group fonts in Photoshop

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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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Correct answer 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

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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

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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

Inspiring

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

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

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

Hi there.

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

Mylenium

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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-nycAuthor

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

Trevor.Dennis

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kmalm57
Do you by any chance know a simple solution to batch process font renaming?

I mean, I have like 70 fonts that I'd like to group in Photoshop but it's a bit time consuming to do that font by font in TypoGraf...

Don, whatever the answer, it is going to depend on what operating system you are using. What makes your post interesting, is that it suggests a lateral solution to the issue in the old thread you've awakened.

A couple of points:

Adobe's TypeKit is now available to everyone with a CC subscription (it used to be only for full subscription holders). TypeKit is an excellent feature, and as good as any font manager I've previously used.
Copying and renaming fonts would allow you to group fonts as per the request at the top of this thread. Prefixing copies of your favourites with a couple of zeros (i.e. '00 Arial', '00 Arial Rounded MT Bold') would supposedly force those copied fonts to the top of the font list.

With Windows I think you would need to copy those fonts from the C:\Windows\fonts\ folder to a non-system folder before you could copy and rename them. You could then use any file renaming application you like.

Note: I do a similar thing with my extended list of Brushes. I prefix brush sets with meaningful names so they group themselves in the brush list. I find this a huge help when looking for particular brushes, and I still have enough of the original name to know where I got the sets from.