Hi, I’d like it if when I select a text to change the font, it appears in the font selector with the font applied when I hover over it. This way, as a user, I can see how it looks. That is, the font preview UI doesn’t show the font name with the font applied, but rather the selected text with the font applied, at least the first 10 characters.
Also, it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to clone the selected text object with the font being “viewed” in the font selector. This way, I have multiple copies of that same object with those selected fonts so I can compare which one looks best.
Thanks for reaching out with this interesting request. This is something we’ll definitely keep in mind, but unfortunately, we can’t implement it at the moment due to performance reasons.
Once a font is loaded into a document, it stays in memory until the program is closed, which can consume a significant amount of RAM.
While this feature could be useful for specific use cases, it might negatively affect the experience for most other users.
It would be possible to add a setting for this, but that would complicate the program’s logic, and we’re trying to keep the number of settings to a minimum.
Perhaps using a live view using the online server with an API that returns the preview image of the font with the “text” (8 characters) in size 14. A very small image, but one that can be enlarged. It doesn’t matter if it appears somewhat pixelated. It would require internet access and wouldn’t use any memory on the PC, just the server “rendering” the text image with the font applied in monochrome. The impact on web server resource usage would have to be assessed. It should be activated 1 second after selecting the font to avoid overloading when scrolling through the font list on Lunacy’s side. Just an idea.
Our font system already works this way but only for text that shows the font’s name, in the language that the font actually supports.
Saving random text samples for every random font would be a bit too much and still quite costly. Plus, some users upload their own fonts, and downloading those to our server might not even be legally okay.
