How to turn off "Font Class" in Character > Font drop down menu

Awesome, so glad you were able to find the collapse/expand button in the UI there and that it's useful for you! Thanks @hietommy !

I simply do NOT want the class list to show up. I've seen stuff classified as "Black Letter" which are, in fact "Script" (with "script" actually in the name of the font). So these font classes are worthless. 

First view (now using version 26.2.0 in hopes that this issues was fixed, but it obviously wasn't).

This is using the Font List in the ribbon. Note that it covers the entire height of the window, I can't shorten it, I can't move it. Plus, it covers half of my document. And the "font box" even extends further past the Photoshop artboard. Makes it kinda hard to check out type I have on that side of the document. 

This is using the Type window, and while I can see the artboard entirely, but I tend to work more zoomed, so the class list is either taking up valuable real estate in "full page view" or I can't see what's on the right side when I zoom in to fine tune things. 

Again: the fact that this font box isn't resizable, isn't moveable, and I can't turn off the font class list (which has been incorrect a good 70% of the time in classifying types of fonts, rendering it useless), makes it extremely difficult to use fonts in Photoshop. A simple drop down list is all I need.

I'm looking for alternatives to Photoshop (and Adobe in general). I did return to QuarkXpress because they still use Pantone colors. So please, listen to the people. You're adding things they don't want. We hated Pagemaker, loved Quark, then InDesign came out, and wow! Simple, easy to use...now it's back to, "Seriously? I can't use our company logo because Adobe doesn't allow Pantone colors?" So, Quark it is. Now to find a Photoshop alternative because most of these updates have been things that either slow down my work flow to such a point it's nervewracking, or just bloated stuff that drains my computer more quickly than rendering a multi-gigabit 3D image. Let's get back to the basics.

@Pete.Green The Chinese fonts are completely incompatible with the classification and cannot be turned off, so I cannot see the font name completely.

我想关闭字体类别，这会导致右侧的字体名称无法完全显示。

How to turn off "Font Class" in Character > Font drop down menu

Thank you for the comments! Two screenshots are posted below showing the odd menu drawing. The other menus draw down, but these two draw upwards.

The third image is a mockup (shameless copypasta), having fonts in the Type menu so they are accessible when panels are hidden. You'll also notice Bodoni ornaments, the rightmost glyph is cut off. This is straight from the font browser.

Great feedback @Lumigraphics !

Can you say more about what you mean by "traditional font list" in your first bullet?

"Watch the menu drawing. On the Mac, the style menu in the Options bar draws over the system menu bar."

Do you have a screenshot of this happening? I wasn't able to reproduce this. 

Many of your other comments are great as well and I won't respond to all of them here, but we're looking at them as a team, and appreciate your write up. We have some more updates and polish coming in the next few months, so stay tuned. Would love to hear more of your feedback as some of those changes are released. 

Regards,

Pete

Hi @ZerinaAkula and @hietommy ,

Thanks for the feedback on the Font browser! This is something that we're looking at improving by adding the ability to collapse/expand the classes/tags filters on the left. 

One question, when collapsed/hidden, would you expect the font browser to have a smaller width?

I can almost assume that from @hietommy 's request for a "more compact" version, and @ZerinaAkula suggesting it's taking too much space. Just looking to confirm this is what you're after. 

Regards,

Pete