Is there a way to organize or group fonts inside Photoshop?

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April 4, 2024
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I work in Photoshop a lot, every single day, for the past 25 years. And I keep getting lost with over 500+ fonts in Photoshop (and Illustrator). Is there a way to organize them or group them into folders? Maybe like my favorite fonts for each topic or style that I design in, or maybe themed fonts? It’s quite time-consuming and counter-productive to have to scroll through 500+ of them each time (and the preview is so tiny too!). I also would like the ability to have FONT PAIRS (or font groups) that go together in folders. There should be a way to group fonts per my liking. Is there one? I'm on a Mac.

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Have you seen this in the beta forum Anna?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/new-feature-enhanced-font-browser-is-now-in-photoshop-beta/td-p/14471780

It's still in beta right now obviously, but for Pete to have announced, it should be coming to full release soon.

Would a font manager like Suitcase (now called Extensis Connect) make life easier for you? I've never used a fonts manager myself, and ISTR Suitcase causing issues some years ago, so do some research before taking that route.

I just checked, and I have 203 files in my Windows 11 Fonts folder, so well short of your 500, and I thought I was a bit of a collector!

Are you sure your fonts are working at optimum? Check out the Fonts Troubleshooter and see if that helps. Pete, the Adobe employee who started the new font features thread, often susggests deleting the fonts cache, which will force a rebuild and maybe speed it up.

Good luck, and please let us know how you get on.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Just remembered something else I was going to mention, and that is to leave fonts on Adobe Fonts (Typkit as was). AF has some good search tools if you have a decent internet connection.

Do you know you can use shorcuts when looking for fonts?

You can start typing in the font field bo it and it will filter out everything but bold italics.