I'm currently running Illustrator CC 24.0 and still having this issue. Tried resetting prefs, reinstalling, etc. and nothing fixes it... please get this fixed!

I'm currently running 24.0 and I'm still experiencing this problem.

Yes its very annoying and eats a lot of time

Please fix this issue. I work with hundreds of fonts and I am accustomed to typing in the first few letters to skip to that area in my font list. I've been importing hundreds of new files in from an old artist and replacing fonts. I waste so much time now scrolling through each letter to find what I need. I am using Illustrator CC 24.0 and contrary to the Illustrator response above, I can find no fix.

Thought I was the only one! What a horrendous update. Now every time I use Illustrator, I'm ****** off.

Karen: But on the other hand now we've got a spellchecker built into Illustrator, just like nobody ever asked for! (As opposed to the many requests from people who've been using AI for 10-20 years to "stop changing things that don't need changing" and "fix the damned bugs already".)

I can hardly wait to load up v24 to see what new problems have been introduced. And zero confidence that anything involving my personal bugaboo (the insane way character & paragraph styles are handled, and the *lying* values displayed in the controls of the Character and Paragraph panels) has been improved.

I really should bite the bullet and go back to AI 2015 (v21, I think), which was the last one that worked correctly text-wise. But for my $672 per year (!) 'designer tax' I shouldn't have to do that.

Oh. My. God. Please fix this issue. I thought I hated the changes made when CS6 came out, but I long for those days now! When you have so many fonts, this is just very frustrating and aggravating. I just purchased the CC edition last month so if Adobe were trying to fix it, i'm pretty sure it would have been done. I have the same complaints as the others here. Seems to me Adobe isn't interested in making the day-to-day activities for their customers better. Fix these negative comments by making an appropriate change.

Gibt es in Zukunft wieder die möglichkeit, dass Schriften im Zeichenbedienfeld an der Stelle stehen bleiben, an der man Sie ausgewählt hat?

When scrolling through fonts and selecting, it starts over from the beginning instead of where I left off, causing frustration and time.

for example if I'm working with text in Times New Roman from my font favorites and I go back to the drop down font menu it starts back at the top of the alphabetically ordered font list. This is not helpful if you are in the process of selecting the right font and you're going down the list trying them out. So in my example I would like to go back to the font menu and still be at the Times New Roman font ready to scroll down to the next font I want to view

The only way i see to optimize the infinite scrolling is to pressing shift key while doing it. It jumps to the next group of fonts on the list. Works for shift key + down arrow key too.

Maybe this will help. In Prefs, go to Type and look for "Number of Recent Fonts:" with a drop down box. If you make this at 0, then Font List acts like it used to for the most part.

It's been a full year since this issue was first posted and it continues to be a problem for me. I'm on CC, so it's up to date all the time, but the issue hasn't been resolved.

God Ashutosh This issue is not solved at all. Is this rocket science!!!! Cant your programmers keep it just the way it was. Its very very frustrating and time consuming.

I would love this feature back!!

I can only seem to update to version 22.1 as of today. Is this font menu issue resolved for this version? It's insanely frustrating, and time-consuming, to have to start at the very first font listed every time you want to change a font. Anything?

Latest versions of ID AI and PS (2019) are now installed and although they made changes to the font drop-down — being able to see a larger preview of the font and showing your actual selected text — The list still does not focus on the selected font when you have recent fonts showing, but instead goes to the top of the list. Just dumb behavior. If Corel has done it for 20 years, you think Adobe could do the same. It is a very useful feature. Adobe must think so, because they implemented it, just in a very non-productive manner.

DITTO

The font list always starts at the top when you expand the menu. If you type "M" to jump forward in the list you can only view those "M" fonts before you scroll back to "A" (top of list). If you type "My" you can only see fonts with "My" and nothing else.

The old versions would always expand the menu so that you would be at the font you have currently selected. I would love this feature back.

I explore fonts a lot, the current situation with the menu is really debilitating.

BTW Cris. You explained the issue perfectly.