Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018: The New Font Menu

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Larry

One of the more obvious – but entirely welcome – new features in the 2018 update to Adobe Premiere Pro is the new Fonts menu.

FIRST NOTE: I think this new menu also appears in After Effects.

SECOND NOTE: To learn more about fonts in general, see this video. I enjoy using typefaces and created an entire webinar devoted to them here.

For example, here I’ve used the relatively new text tool to add a title directly in the Program monitor. The text isn’t bad, really, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be, um, soaring with military precision.

We could change this text the old, boring way:

Open Effect Controls
Select the text you want to modify; in this example, I selected “Formation Flight”
Adjust whatever you want to adjust

But why do something you already know when you can learn something news?

NOTE: If you want to get a jump on this tutorial, change the font and you’ll immediately see this new feature.

Instead, let’s check out the new Essential Graphics and text tools:

Select the Move tool (shortcut: V)
Select the text in the Program Monitor that you want to modify
Click the newly-renamed Graphics workspace (it used to be Titles)
In the Essential Graphics panel on the right, click Edit
Scroll down to the Text section and modify as you see fit

THE NEW STUFF

What’s new is the revised Font menu. Now, not only can we see a list of fonts, but a sample of the fonts are displayed in the typeface itself on the right. (Yup, this is a LOT like the Photoshop font menu.)

While the illustrations are a bit small, even these hints can be really useful in finding the right font to convey the emotion you want for your project.

Twirl down the small right-pointing arrow to the left of the name of the font to see all the different weights available inside.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE…!

See those stars on the left. These allow you to select Favorites, as I’ve done here for Tekton and Verdana.

One of my BIG frustrations in any software is navigating a long font menu. I love fonts and try to use different ones in my projects. But it is really painful scrolling to the bottom of a long font list. Which means that I owe an apology to all fonts who’s name starts with any letter later than “L,” because I have ignored them for all the wrong reasons for far too long.

Especially because we can’t type a letter and jump to a font beginning with that letter. We have to scroll… and scroll… and, sigh, scroll.

But, no more!

Instead, once you’ve starred your favorites, click the star icon up in the Filter bar and all your Favorite fonts are isolated and displayed, regardless of where they occur in the overall font list.

I like this feature a LOT!

Even better, if you’ve downloaded some Typekit fonts, you can quickly see which those are by by clicking the Tk icon.

NOTE: To remove a filter selection, just click the icon again to deselect it.

SUMMARY

It seems like a small thing, but the new font menu in Premiere makes using ALL your fonts a lot faster and easier.

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46 Responses to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018: The New Font Menu

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manigorudo says:

January 17, 2018 at 12:53 pm

where is the underline option??

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- Larry says:
  
  January 17, 2018 at 1:12 pm
  
  Manigorudo:
  
  Good question. I just looked and it does not seem to be readily apparent.
  
  Larry
  
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- sam says:
  
  March 6, 2018 at 12:25 pm
  
  did you every figure this out? having the same issue right now. certainly they wouldn’t have left out such an important and basic option right?
  
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  - Katie Garcia says:
    
    July 20, 2018 at 1:46 pm
    
    To underline font, you need to create a legacy title.
    
    Click File -> New -> Legacy Title
    
    Cheers!
    
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Ross says:

February 3, 2018 at 6:32 pm

Thanks Larry, but where have all my fonts gone? From the Mac Font Book I had, for example, Abadi MT condensed extra bold (a Microsoft font that was in the system). Now my old projects that I am finishing in CC2018 are font-broken

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- Larry says:
  
  February 4, 2018 at 7:16 am
  
  Ross:
  
  Fonts are a system-level resource. Upgrading Premiere would not have affected them. Upgrading your operating system might.
  
  Larry
  
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Scott Pinzon says:

March 26, 2018 at 10:10 am

Yay! That Favorites filter is a terrific tip!

One question: if I’m in the text tool and I type V to get the Move tool, the keyboard shortcut doesn’t work. The type tool dutifully types a V in my text. Is this simply the way it works, or is there some configuration change I can make to re-enable keyboard shortcuts? Should I press a modifier key or something?

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- Larry Jordan says:
  
  March 26, 2018 at 6:56 pm
  
  Scott:
  
  This is the way text is supposed to work, otherwise there would be no way to type “victory,” as it would keep jumping out of text mode.
  
  Deselect the text box, then all your keyboard shortcuts will enable.
  
  Larry
  
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Bob Yen says:

April 22, 2018 at 7:31 am

Hey Larry,

How do I set a “default” font in Premiere Pro CC 2018 v12.1.0 (Build 186)?

Every time I go to do any type of font work in Premiere Pro, it, by default, loads this extremely, almost unreadable, bizarre font.

Now that tells me that, somehow, somewhere, that bizarre font is assigned to be the current, “default” font.

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- Larry says:
  
  April 22, 2018 at 8:39 am
  
  Bob:
  
  I don’t know a way to set the default font and a quick Google search did not turn up anything either.
  
  Time to call Adobe Support.
  
  Larry
  
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dthree says:

July 9, 2018 at 7:31 am

Font favorites don’t seem to work correctly for me. Right after I click the star I can see it in the favorites filter, but then it’s not there when I edit a different type object.

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Ben says:

August 27, 2018 at 9:27 am

For some reason, I am able to change the fill and stroke color within the Essential Graphics panel, but the text itself is not changing color. It remains black. Any thoughts?

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- Larry says:
  
  August 27, 2018 at 10:36 am
  
  Ben:
  
  Text colors are changed from the Character pane, Fill and Stroke are used to change Shape colors.
  
  Larry
  
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  - Ben says:
    
    August 27, 2018 at 10:57 am
    
    Thanks
    
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Enoch Bentsil says:

September 21, 2018 at 3:23 am

Pls help me to update my adobe premier pro cc to 2018 am using old version 2015

Enochbentsil45@gmail.com

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- Larry says:
  
  September 21, 2018 at 8:49 am
  
  Enoch:
  
  Adobe now licenses its software via subscription. You pay a small amount for the software each month. As such, you can’t upgrade your 2015 version. Instead, go here to subscribe to the current version. Adobe updates its software multiple times a year under this new system.
  
  https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
  
  Larry
  
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abdullah Elgamoudi says:

February 9, 2019 at 2:20 am

how can I have grey background for subtitle

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- Larry says:
  
  February 9, 2019 at 12:39 pm
  
  Abdullah:
  
  It depends upon the format of the subtitle. For example, SCC subtitles do not support gray backgrounds. iTT subtitles do.
  
  Larry
  
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web deisnger says:

April 21, 2019 at 11:44 am

Hi
can we change multiple text font with one change?

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- Larry says:
  
  April 21, 2019 at 12:12 pm
  
  Web designer:
  
  If, by this question, you mean: Can we can the font in multiple text clips at the same time?
  
  In Premiere, no. In Final Cut Pro X, yes.
  
  Larry
  
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Yon says:

June 1, 2019 at 2:31 am

Hi Larry,

I am having problem to set Khmer Unicode font. It displays readable on Timeline but not on the Preview video [displays in Square instead].
Can you help please!

Thanks

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- Larry says:
  
  June 1, 2019 at 8:45 am
  
  Yon:
  
  Thanks for writing, but this is a problem I can’t help with. Time to call Adobe Support.
  
  Sorry,
  
  Larry
  
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