When picking a color from either color vector and bitmap OpenType-SVG fonts, the picked color is currently the default underlying text color (often black), not what is actually displayed on screen.

Using type in illustrator used to be a breeze. Now it seems you need near pixel-perfect accuracy to highlight or to select the type box. Often now you will just end up creating a new type box when trying to highlight type already present. Honestly, it worked great before whatever update changed this and now it's somewhat irritating to use. It's not a major issue really, but sometimes the old 'if it isn't broken, don't fix it' advice should be heeded.

PLEASE MAKE A "HOTKEY" or keyboard command to EXIT "TYPE MODE."

ONCE ONE IS IN TYPE MODE, A COMMON ERROR IS TO ACCIDENTALLY TYPE:

VVVVVVVVVVVVV

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

MMMMMMMMMM

etc.

The answer could be as simple as "Simultaneous Spacebar + hotkey letter."

The align tools are doing an awful job when it comes to aligning text in Illustrator.

OCR would be great from images. Typeface recognition would be even better, but I would like to see that implemented better than what's currently implemented in Photoshop, which is not very good at identifying fonts other than fairly standard ones. Sensei might be a good fit for this. Please take a look at WhatTheFont.com and make the recognition at least as good as that.

I used to paste graphics/text from Powerpoint into Illustrator with no issues. Now with CC, only text in Times will paste without corruption into symbols. Is there a way around converting the font before copying?

Find and Replace text has a shortcut popup for a Forced Line Break, ^n, but not the more common simple Paragraph return, ^p.

A Paragraph return is the normal Return button on all keyboards. A forced line break is Shift/Enter.

Find/Replace understands ^n notation for a forced line break, but does not understand ^p notation for a paragraph return.

When you choose the type tool and click, the placeholder text defaults to 12pt. This means that the text is tiny if you have a large artboard (see attached). It would be cool if the placeholder text was sized relative to your artboard instead, so that it's easy to see and work with.

I use Edit>Edit Colors>Recolor Artwork so very often that I have replaced the “Rulers” keyboard shortcut with “Recolor Artwork.”

“Character Styles” and “Paragraph Styles” are invaluable tools, but I REALLY would love to have a dialogue box identical to that of “Recolor Artwork,” except for swapping & changing type, character & paragraph rules/styles. If necessary, I can create a mockup of the UI that I have in my head for this, but I’m not planning to, unless it is necessary.

Please give us the option to remove all the Asian and Arabic fonts from the font menu - Most of us using western alphabets never use them! Why should they clutter our font menu?

simply add a search field within Find Font (like InDesign etc.)

Improve Parageaph and character styles of illustrstor more like what we see in indesign. for example GREP will be so cool to include in paragraph styles of illustrator.

When using Find and Replace - search on the selected items - or make it an option to search only the selected items.

Be able to re-size text frame to fit content as per indesign. Constantly having to re-size text frames to fit the content.

Text Selection Area

It is important when you want to create bullets with Glyphs you can simply insert the type tool next ot the sentence and make it part of the sentence (like in Design)

Right now you can favourite fonts, but only during browsing fonts normally. If you search for fonts there is no favourite column in the results.