Font list on screen

[Foxart]

In the tutorials of affinity designer I see that when you open the font family box, you can choose from a whole list of fonts that spans the full height of the window. When I open my font family, I only see eleven fonts. How can I ensure that I also see a larger list please?

[prophet]

I get a big list on my Mac. Is this a Windows issue?

[carl123]

Yes, on windows it is restricted to 11 (bug?)

 

[Foxart]

27 minutes ago, prophet said:

I get a big list on my Mac. Is this a Windows issue?

 

[Foxart]

Thanks for the quick responses. So this is clearly a Windows problem. Maybe a tip to Affinity to fix this in a future update?

 

[Superargento]

Version 1.9.2 was released today, but the list of fonts is still short.

Let's wait 🙂

[qbenguy]

I'm hoping Affinity can address this with an update. I'm still having a hard time understanding why the experience is different for Mac users.

[GeePeeBee]

What has happened to my font list in Affinity Photo. I have recently updated to the latest version in August 2021 and my font list is limited to the first 11 fonts in alphabetical order. Can anyone let me know how to restore my full font list, please.

[lacerto]

On 7/3/2021 at 5:42 AM, IgnacioG said:

I'm hoping Affinity can address this with an update. I'm still having a hard time understanding why the experience is different for Mac users.

It might have something to do with the time it seems to take to generate the font previews in the Windows versions: the preview text is IMO also unnecessarily big on Windows (or perhaps it can be adjusted somewhere?). They might have made the list limited to 11 families to alleviate the problem.

Earlier e.g. in CS6 Adobe apps (at least on Windows) the main font lists with samples were limited to listing just families (and actual styles could be selected only from a sub list; InDesign CS6 has the full list under Type > Font but that works poorly, but not so much because of problems with the system than because of the control itself as it misses a scroll bar and only has a a kind of a "more" arrow), and certain apps like QuarkXPress (2018) really struggle in getting a full font list with all styles built and properly responding. That depends much also on number of fonts installed, and the kind of system that is used.

But this has improved in the current versions of the mentioned apps, and nowadays e.g. Adobe apps have the main font lists extending from top to bottom and they contain all styles, and featurewise they are identical on both platforms.

[Komatös]

5 hours ago, GeePeeBee said:

What has happened to my font list in Affinity Photo. I have recently updated to the latest version in August 2021 and my font list is limited to the first 11 fonts in alphabetical order. Can anyone let me know how to restore my full font list, please.

Please have a look at the character settings.