Ability to search Glyphs by name
For Symbol/Icon fonts, it's impossible to find a specific icon you're looking for when there are thousands of unicode icons to sort through one by one. If I want to find headphones or something in the Glyphs panel, right now I can't just type "headphones". I have to search through every single icon and can easily pass by it multiple times.
Troy
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Marilla Owens
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In the glyph panel, please add a search field like the one in InDesign. This improves workflow a lot by making it easier to find a particular glyph/character within a font. I especially find it handy when working with Font Awesome to add icons to my work. Font Awesome glyphs all have searchable names, so this works really well in InDesign. It looks like other fonts have searchable names for their characters as well. In InDesign, I was able to search on "del" to find the Delta character in the Garamond font. It's soooo much faster than scrolling through the grid. I would love to have this same workflow efficiency in Illustrator (and Photoshop too).
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dude
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The Glyph windows is completely, absolutely, omnipresently useless. It serves you nothing else but frustration. What good is a computer for if you cannot use it to perform a simple search? Glyph window without search capabilities is beyond comprehension. The most simple stuff a computer can do for you is search through things and you dare to present a window with thousands of glyphs for the user to squint and manually search it. How insulting! Get rid of ti, and the team behind it too, they know nothing about UX nor software development.
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Anonymous
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Searching for the right glyph is a true chore, especially with all glyph fonts. Please add the capability to search for glyphs.