feature: show example for each font and a font gallery

[Anikmoujegy]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

it's very distructive.

Describe the solution you'd like.

something like office suite where user can see a demo overview of which font he is going to choose.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

a font gallery.

Additional context

No response

[myfunnyandy]

Hi @Anikmoujegy, we've already considered to render the font styles at the fonts list but discarded the idea because preloading all the fonts would be needed, and that would have a great cost in terms of performace.

[Anikmoujegy]

Hi @Anikmoujegy, we've already considered to render the font styles at the fonts list but discarded the idea because preloading all the fonts would be needed, and that would have a great cost in terms of performace.

No I want feature that show preview of how the font looks like in real time.

Because if a user want to use a new font from the list and then he has to search it on web to know how the font looks like. Or knowing by applying all the fonts one by one then having a idea of it and remember those.

For me I haven't use most pf the fonts you listed and tell me how will I know which one is handwriting type font which one is stylish or which one is plane text font .Now just have to click on random font and see how it look like.

If there will be a overview how the font like that will be so cool, Isn't it ?

something like this

see all font have a example overview of it.

[heyakyra]

Hi @Anikmoujegy, we've already considered to render the font styles at the fonts list but discarded the idea because preloading all the fonts would be needed, and that would have a great cost in terms of performace.

That's disappointing, since Canva provides font previews (this was just raised as a concern when I suggested that someone switch from it)

Edit: Opened a community discussion.

[jdittrich]

Would it be possible to render font samples as images, using the same image every time (so always the font name, no live preview)? Doing this could be optional and decoupled, aka it is a separate service that can be run once at build time or when requested and if the images are not avaliable it would fall back to the current mode.

(this still might not be worth it, but it would potentially not create any deeply entangled solution)

[heyakyra]

Ah, that sounds great. That does seem to be how Canva does it, so seems reasonable to me!

[heyakyra]

So can this be reopened then? 🙏

cc: @myfunnyandy @Alotor @EvaMarco @niwinz

[myfunnyandy]

Hi all,

We are currently exploring ways to present huge amounts of items at the workspace sidebars that is efficient in terms of performance. This is the story at Taiga. This might give us also the solution to this case, so I've crosslinked the issue. Reopening this also 🤞