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

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Can someone, please, explain me the reasoning behind this change? Thank you.

this change was intentional with the launch of Font picker

I was hoping that it was a bug … I’m sorry, but this is really bad UX 😦 Why removing that functionality at all? You could have both (eg. Affinity has previews + quick change with arrows).

I used to use keyboard arrows up and down to have a preview of next and previous fonts immediately on my mockup. Now it is not possible. I have to click to select the font to get it on my mockup. It is so annoying!

I agree - removing that in-context preview really makes this a lot harder.

Just updated to 116.10.9.

Previuosly I would select fonts in a design and simply arrow through the fonts list to live update the design. This would then be mirrored across a range of screens with different gamma, resolutions and screen reflections, some at distance.

After the latest up date I am unable to now arrow thrrough the fonts list and have the design live update. Now it takes multiple clicks to select a font.

This is a HUGE down grade to functionalty!!!

This is a major downgrade to a feature that worked really well previously. Please fix.

this is absolutely a disgrace.
literally killed a central part of my prototyping from reference.
it was a vital part of my creative process that allowed me to speed up design decisions.

i literally will have to change software from now on.

Please bring this feature back.
im not sure devs realize how vital this is in fast paced prototyping environments.

changing this feature is insane.

i had to spend the last two hours and a half doing the work i usually do in a fraction of the time, literally 15 minutes at max.
honestly, you killed the product with this.

Hey,

Can we make this font view look like Photoshop’s text field + dropdown?

It helps the user to copy the font and doesn’t disrupt the old user flow.

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

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?

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! 🗳️

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

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. 🙂

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!

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

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

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.

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

I want the text layer to be temporarily updated while you hover on any font.

And ↑↓ arrow should be used to actually select any nearest font

These features already exist in PS and AI

This is the only thing bugging me in Figma since the latest release.

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Please bring this back.

i wonder if this is a bug or not, because it hasnt been fixed for 2 weeks and its really scary

Yup, this new font selector actually slows me down rather than being an improvement.