idea Point symbol font Subset should default to All in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Point symbol font Subset should default to All

David_Kimball — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:50:35 GMT

When symbolizing points in ArcGIS Pro, if you open the Symbology pane and choose a symbol from a Font, the "Choose a character" window has a Subset dropdown that limits which characters from the font are shown:

Oftentimes it defaults to "Basic Latin" and shows you some of the characters (a.k.a. glyphs/symbols) in the font. To see all of the characters, you have to click the Subset dropdown and choose each subset in turn. For the example above (ESRI Default Marker), there are two subsets ("Basic Latin" and "Latin-1 Supplement"). For some fonts there are more. This makes it very time-consuming to look for the character/glyph/symbol you want.

This can occasionally be useful for finding obscure characters in regular text fonts (for instance, if you want to see only the Arrows in the "Segoe UI Symbol" font), but it usually is counterproductive.

I think the Subset dropdown should default to "All" and show all character/glyph/symbols in the font (there currently isn't an "All" option, but there should be). Or at least for ESRI fonts it should behave that way - the subsets in ESRI fonts are completely meaningless.

Re: Point symbol font Subset should default to All - Status changed to: Under Consideration

EdiePunt — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:23:35 GMT

Thank you for this feedback @David_Kimball , it's a good idea.

Re: Point symbol font Subset should default to All

wayfaringrob — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:17:00 GMT

Reminds me of how the style interface works in the catalog, frustratingly unusable. Perhaps both should get parallel functionality: a show all option in addition to subsets.

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Re: Point symbol font Subset should default to All

ErikBreedon — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:20:12 GMT

Kudos from me! I came here to share this same idea.