Scrolling through fonts has become impossible

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June 29, 2021
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It seems like a very fundamental task in photoshop has become fairly impossible : auditioning different fonts for your project via scrolling through them in the character panel.

I usually select my type layer and then use the arrow keys to scroll through the font list and view different typefaces. However, whenever I make an edit, and come back to the fontlist, it jumps all the way back to the top of the list, no matter if I try to start it where I left off or not. It's as if it is impossible to scroll through fonts from anywhere except the top of the list. This seems downright insane for photoshop?!

I have found a couple other users on the forum mentioning this to no avail. How are you all testing many different fonts in your project if this basic function does not work anymore?!

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brighteyedeas

Participant

does anyone know if there is a keybind to open the font list? im setting up a way to use qmk to scroll through my list and it works however i need to be able to select the box or a keybind for it without having to do so w the mouse

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ivan25349743g7a0

Known Participant

Indeed, but my mouse scroll whell is a mess anyway so i use Up and Down arrow keys this still works to scroll trough fornts.

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CBug70

Participant

Oh, good. So it's not just me and I'm not going crazy. I used to be able to be on a text layer, click the Horizontal Type Tool, then put my cursor in the top left box with the font names. Then I used to be able to arrow up or down to advance to the previous/next font and then my text would change. I can no longer do this (seems all of a sudden, because I swear I've done this fairly recently). I'm using Release 23.4.2.

scop0101

Participant

I need to be able to scroll through font selections for type design projects. It has been a disastarous glitch with no efficient workaround. I hope Adobe is on task to resolve this issue.

scop0101

Participant

I resolved the Font scrolling issue by uninstalling pshop 23.4.2 and reinstalling the previous version of 23.4.1 Easily done in Adobe Creative Cloud, just select Photoshop and click "other versions" I don't know if the newer 23.5 would also fix the scrolling issue. Haven't tried that yet. Just going with what works for now.

joeys9317720

Participant

The last 2 Photoshop updates in CC (between June - August 2022) seem to have nuked this feature. I keep hoping to see a CC update that will fix this but so far nothing.

I can't believe how useful this feature was and how often I used it until it quit working. Come on Adobe, do better!!!

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Rick25600058wn8d

Participant

This is aweful. Not only can I no longer index through my fonts with the use of the arrow keys, the font menu covers most of my workspace and I can't see my workspace. Macbook Photoshop 23.4.2

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Red Point

Inspiring

I am having the same issue. I cannot scroll through the fonts any longer. Its not related to the glyphs issue but a whole new ball game of instability.

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adamdotcruz

Participant

I literally searched for this issue just to make sure I wasn't going crazy! Yes! Please fix immediately. This simple function is critical to finding the perfect font.

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erikah98492810

Participant

I have the same issues now. They need to release a patch/update. This disaster happened after the last update.

Photoshop 23.4.1 and Big Sur 11.6.5.