Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Make font searching better for designers
Hi Adobe team,
I’m a working designer, and choosing a typeface is one of the most time-consuming parts of nearly every project I do. The font menu has changed very little in twenty years, and I think there’s a real opportunity to make this part of the workflow much better.
The problems I run into every day
The list is hard to browse. The menu window is small, so I can’t see the font names and the results on the page at the same time. Weights and styles shift depending on the family, which makes comparing difficult.
The menu doesn’t…2 votes -
FIND SIMILAR FONTS - Doesn't work. And hasn't since 2018. Mac and Windows
As the title says.
Find similar fonts doesn't work on mac or pc. On any version. Even on freshly installed or brand new system.
This hasn't worked now since 2018. When will this be fixed?
3 votes -
Add 'Cancel' option to Turntable
There is no option to cancel Turntable once started. This is incredibly frustrating considering how many different locations the Turntable button is in. I often use the quick reflect buttons on the transform panel and continuously find myself clicking Turntable on accident because it is right below it. I then have to wait up to a minute for Turntable to finish before I can continue working. This also completely wastes my credits every time because the generations are unwanted. Genius business model.
This could also be remedied by moving the Turntable button itself like Ton mentions here. I am all…
2 votes -
Improve how Links panel works with images placed in opacity masks
In Ai opacity masks are powerful, but behave as a parallel reality we don’t have any control until we go there. Many workflows are crippled because of this, but here’s just one.
Look at the GIF.
I have a document with two linked images.
One is just placed on canvas, another one live inside of the opacity mask for a path.The Links panel shows me both images (fair), but I don’t know which one lives in the 'secret opacity dimension'.
Then, if I select an image in the panel and click 'Go to Link', Ai would select the image…7 votes -
Add more space character widths
I would like to see the space characters menu expanded to include the Sixth, Eighth, Quarter, Third.
3 votes -
Synchronize Gradient Angle Across Multiple Objects While Preserving Individual Gradient Colors
I would like to suggest a native Illustrator feature that allows designers to synchronize the angle or direction of gradients across multiple selected objects without replacing each object’s individual gradient colors.
For example:
Red → Orange — 30°
Blue → Cyan — 120°
Green → Yellow — 240°After applying Match Gradient Angle → 30°:
Red → Orange — 30°
Blue → Cyan — 30°
Green → Yellow — 30°The key requirement is that each object keeps its own gradient colors and color stops. Only the gradient angle or direction is synchronized.
This would be especially useful for vector…
3 votes -
Shortcut for removing many selected points on an object without breaking the shape into a line
It would be great if there was a shortcut key for removing selected anchor points while maintaining status as a shape object.
I could be simply not aware of the shortcut key for it, but it's frustrating to select anchor points and hit backspace/delete, only for the shape to break into a line. When it breaks into a line, it's no longer a viable target for the pathfinder tool, and you can't easily turn it back into a shape once it's a line.
Even better would be if there was also a shortcut key (maybe an ALT or SHIFT in…
2 votes -
Illustrator 2025 (29.8.7) flatten layers of PDF saved in version 2026 (30.5.1)
Let's say you have Illustrator 2026 (30.5.1) and you save an artwork as PDF preserving editing capabilities, the artwork has layers, some of them are hidden.
When you reopen the artwork in the same Illustrator version all layers are in place and you can continue to edit the artwork.In the save as Ai dialog it appears that the Illustrator file format is the same from 2020, but if you open the same PDF with Illustrator 2025 (29.8.7) or Illustrator 2024 (28.7.10) all layers content collapse to a single layer (Layer 1) and the objects inside hidden layers are lost.
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4 votes -
The transparent areas of (point) text boxes should not be selectable.
It is difficult / impossible to select any object below any portion of a (point type) text box, even when the area under the cursor is completely empty / transparent. In the attached screenshot examples, the pink line is not selectable because it is covered by a text box, even when there are no active pixels or vector data under the cursor within the text area. No other objects in Illustrator behave this way. Transparency is supposed to be non selectable. Illustrator treats the entire text box as an object with a fill, even though text boxes completely lack a…
2 votes -
Add an option to preserve the color of the Clipping Mask when creating a Clipping Mask
I would like the "Object > Clipping Mask" menu to have two options:
1 - "Make transparent Clipping Mask" (keeps current behavior)
2 - "Make Mask (preserve color)" : Makes a clipping mask but doesn't strip the color of the object used as a mask.I create a lot of illustrations where I use dark shapes for colouring inside and shading, and then clip the shadow's bleed outside the shapes with a clipping mask - it doesn't mean I need the object's color removed.
2 votes -
Managing Plug-ins
Isn't it about time Adobe offered a better solution to enabling and disabling plug-ins? A simple list with enable and disable option would suffice. It would really make debugging a lot quicker. Especially in Illustrator.
3 votes -
Favorites for presets (like swatches and brushes)
First of all, I am really excited about the new textures and brushes released in the latest versions.
It occurred to me that it would be useful to add a "favorite" flag for each of these tools.
This way, a "favorites" folder or filter could be created, making it much faster to locate the resource.
Also, I was wondering if the texture previews could be made even larger, so they can be viewed more quickly.Thanks.
3 votes -
Save a Graphic Style in CC Library with a right-click or from the Graphic Styles panel
It's a huge waste of time to save Graphic Styles as a .ai file when it would be so simple to save Graphic Styles in the CC Library to centralize everything across hundreds of docs.
Having to locate a file and open it and locate the element and select the Graphic Style and drag it from the Appearance Panel to the Graphic Styles window and then saving it to a file is an incredibly long and cumbersome process.
Right-clicking an object and "Save Object Style to CC Library" would allow a user to discard a file if they don't need…
3 votes -
Give the choice to change the export resolution with or without changing the number of pixels.
When exporting as an image llustrator will always change the pixel amount when you set a resolution higher or lower than 72 ppi. Photoshop has an option that is missing in Illustrator, the option to check/uncheck “Resample” when changing the resolution. When Unchecked only the ppi metatadata is changed and the pixel amount stays the same. When checked Photoshop behaves like Illustrator does and changes the amount of pixels when the resolution is changed. It would be a welcome addition to have this choice in Illustrator.
17 votes -
Random image being added while editing a text box
I'm using Illustrator and a random image is added while I'm editing text. It deselects the item I'm editing and creates an image out of nowhere.
2 votes -
Recent tools section
Add a section in the toolbar that shows the last used 5 or so tools (each with a keyboard shortcut!).
3 votes -
More intelligent document setup
When starting a new document, color mode RGB, for some reason, the swatches palette is populated with CMYK swatches, and the Black swatch is not 0,0,0. Please make this more relevant: When RGB is chosen, the user wants Black to be RGB Black.
Also, let the user choose a background color to represent Alpha (just like After Effects does), or two checkerboard colors.2 votes -
Use full height of the monitor
It would be nice to have a setting to let Illustrator use the monitor more efficient. Especially the tool palette could contain more tools visible on most big screens.
It would be nice to have a setting to let Illustrator use the monitor more efficient. Especially the tool palette could contain more tools visible on most big screens.
And a section of the last used 5 tools. (Each with a keyboard shortcut!)
2 votes -
When using direct select tool to adjust anchor points and handles, keep all anchor points and handles visible
When using direct select tool to adjust anchor points and handles, please keep ALL anchor points and handles visible, as opposed to everything disappearing but the point/handle you are working with. It is impossible and frustrating to try to join/snap to anchor points, or adjust points or handles relative to other points or handles when you can’t see them!. Thank you!
4 votes -
Line Cut Tool for Adobe Illustrator
I would like to suggest a new tool for Adobe Illustrator called “Line Cut”.
The concept is very simple: the user draws a straight line across any selected object, and Illustrator cuts the object along that line from one edge to the other.
The tool should work with:
- Vector shapes;
- Compound paths;
- Groups;
- Text converted to outlines;
- Multiple selected objects;
- Placed or embedded raster images.
For example, if I have a rectangle and draw a line through its middle, the tool would immediately divide the rectangle into two independent objects.
The same concept should work with irregular vector shapes: the…
2 votes
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