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Norbert_Godany
Norbert_Godany
June 22, 2023

LAUNCHED: Preview font families on page when cycling through with the arrow keys

  • June 22, 2023
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Hello!

There was a feature in Figma, that when you cycled between font families with the arrow keys, the text changed on the page to that font even before confirming the change.

Now with the new font window, you need to confirm your selection to preview the text in your page. If you don’t like it, you need to again open up the fonts window, and go through the process.

Photoshop behavior is much nicer, where you see the fonts in the window, how they are, plus there’s a preview on the page.

I believe this feature was working fine before the updates.

Have a nice day!
Norbert

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    Divyansh_Kumar
    Divyansh_Kumar
    New Participant
    June 28, 2023

    In font picker it would be amazing if you can provide font preview on hover

    Peter_Uithoven
    Peter_Uithoven
    June 29, 2023

    Can you elaborate?
    The font picker already provides a preview. You want to see the text that maybe you selected to be temporarily shown in the font under the cursor?
    In a tooltip or you want the actual textfield element to be updated?

      djv
      Figmate
      djv
      Community Support
      June 29, 2023

      Thank you all for your feedback!

      We’ve move your replies to a new feature request, so that we can gauge interest in bringing this back. Be sure to Vote! 🗳️

      Vishal_Yadav
      June 30, 2023

      in the older version, we switch fonts easily through the up & down button with the preview, but now only we can see only fonts without a preview

        Jordan_Newton
        Jordan_Newton
        June 30, 2023

        Came here to write this exactly. Though a small feature, It’s a massive time save. Please bring back the ability to scroll through fonts using up and down key.

        Pretty Please. 🙂

          o.tulchynskyy
          o.tulchynskyy
          June 30, 2023

          Font library.

          Hi all! Tell me who knows.

          Previously, before the update, I could iterate through the fonts in the library and see instantly how this family font is applied in the workspace.

          Now the font is applied only on click and the modal window with the font library disappears after the click.

          Previously, I could instantly apply a font and see the result immediately by simply iterating over the font family. Now it has become very uncomfortable. Maybe there is a way to iterate over fonts quickly like before?

          Thank you!

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            9136
            9136
            New Participant
            July 1, 2023

            Definitely need to be able to preview the selected text layer when hovering over the font.

              9136
              9136
              New Participant
              July 1, 2023

              +. Preview the selected text layer when hovering over the font.

              PhillBC
              PhillBC
              New Participant
              July 2, 2023

              Crazy that this is gone now.

              There’s also no way to preview fonts with all caps, all lower caps etc being active. The preview pane doesn’t change if the text property is set to one of those. Previously, I could apply whatever I wanted and then cycle through each font with these things applied. Now it’s a multistep process and takes far, far longer to go through each individual font.

              For an app that is literally a UX tool, this is an odd choice to be making.

                PhillBC
                PhillBC
                New Participant
                July 2, 2023

                Also, if I want to flick through to see what the word ‘Zoo’ looks like in each of my fonts, how does a font preview using the font’s name help? 99.9% of the time I’m not going to see the letter ‘Z’ in a font name. I can’t get over how bad of a change this is, with no option to go back to the previous method.

                There’s no way a designer who actively designs every day came up with this

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