diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index e4e8320e..6d087ab1 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adob
 
 This file tracks **how far we are and what's left**. Time estimates are wall-clock hours of continuous Claude Opus 5.5 agent work (including builds and the CI gate), given both for **one agent** and for **4–6 parallel agents** on disjoint crates. They are counted from the remaining work (see [Parity estimate](#parity-estimate)), calibrated against measured throughput, and updated as work lands.
 
-_Last updated: 2026-10-09 (after M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into floating panels that move, stack and dock again (#495), the 0.5.0 startup crash on dual-GPU Linux desktops under Wayland fixed: the desktop's own GPU by default and a restart on the next GPU when one can't show the window (#502), path editing while drawing: Cmd/Ctrl with the Pen borrowing Direct Selection and drawing on afterwards, Pen+Alt reshaping segments, handles of a whole selected path dragging, and handle drags no longer re-gathering snap targets every move (#494), the Control bar's and Properties panel's Convert buttons for a path selected as a whole with Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools (#504), the Pen closing a path dragged out of its first anchor every time, without flicker (#501), the Paste menu checking the system clipboard on a background thread on Linux so an X11 clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window (#510), PDF/`.ai` import keeping a type object's outline stroke on the type, wrapped lines as area type, barcode digits in place and layers in the file's stacking order (#508), the Italian interface (#514), EPS images with several data sources read in turn (#498), `restore` undoing dictionary changes in EPS import (part of #505), the macOS menu bar laid out as a Mac app's (the VectorCraft menu with Settings, Language and Appearance, the system's Hide, Services and Window items; owner's request), Object › Image Trace › Make tracing with the Default preset instead of asking for a preset's name (#543), the rulers' unit menu (#528), Live Corners on stars, polygons and pen paths (#511), the drawing tools snapping to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does, with Construction Guides (#506), the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste acting on the text field they were opened from (#516), Windows rendering through DX12 before Vulkan (#545), Image Trace tracing colour layers in parallel and refusing traces too large for memory, with the canvas outlining huge selections by their bounds (#525), SVGs of chosen artboards holding only the art over each artboard (#550); see [Honest assessment](#honest-assessment-2026-10-05))._
+_Last updated: 2026-10-09 (after M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into floating panels that move, stack and dock again (#495), the 0.5.0 startup crash on dual-GPU Linux desktops under Wayland fixed: the desktop's own GPU by default and a restart on the next GPU when one can't show the window (#502), path editing while drawing: Cmd/Ctrl with the Pen borrowing Direct Selection and drawing on afterwards, Pen+Alt reshaping segments, handles of a whole selected path dragging, and handle drags no longer re-gathering snap targets every move (#494), the Control bar's and Properties panel's Convert buttons for a path selected as a whole with Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools (#504), the Pen closing a path dragged out of its first anchor every time, without flicker (#501), the Paste menu checking the system clipboard on a background thread on Linux so an X11 clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window (#510), PDF/`.ai` import keeping a type object's outline stroke on the type, wrapped lines as area type, barcode digits in place and layers in the file's stacking order (#508), the Italian interface (#514), EPS images with several data sources read in turn (#498), `restore` undoing dictionary changes in EPS import (part of #505), the macOS menu bar laid out as a Mac app's (the VectorCraft menu with Settings, Language and Appearance, the system's Hide, Services and Window items; owner's request), Object › Image Trace › Make tracing with the Default preset instead of asking for a preset's name (#543), the rulers' unit menu (#528), Live Corners on stars, polygons and pen paths (#511), the drawing tools snapping to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does, with Construction Guides (#506), the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste acting on the text field they were opened from (#516), Windows rendering through DX12 before Vulkan (#545), Image Trace tracing colour layers in parallel and refusing traces too large for memory, with the canvas outlining huge selections by their bounds (#525), SVGs of chosen artboards holding only the art over each artboard (#550), the font menus' live preview staying on the text instead of flickering on and off every frame (#563); see [Honest assessment](#honest-assessment-2026-10-05))._
 
 ## Where we are
 
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/font_menu.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/font_menu.rs
index 4c6be54e..1544cec7 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/font_menu.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/font_menu.rs
@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ struct MenuState {
     /// The pass the list was last drawn in, and the pass it opened in.
     last: u64,
     opened: u64,
+    /// The family the text had as the menu opened. A preview shows another one in the document
+    /// (and the menu's caller), but this one stays the current family: hovering it ends the
+    /// preview (#563).
+    current: String,
     /// The highlighted row and the query and filters it belongs to.
     highlight: Option<usize>,
     query: String,
@@ -194,6 +198,7 @@ fn list(ui: &mut Ui, state_id: egui::Id, st: &mut MenuState, current: &str, samp
         st.opened = pass;
         st.highlight = None;
         st.query.clear();
+        st.current = current.to_string();
     }
     st.last = pass;
     // For [`end_stale_preview`]: the menu is open, in this layer.
@@ -243,8 +248,9 @@ fn list(ui: &mut Ui, state_id: egui::Id, st: &mut MenuState, current: &str, samp
     });
     let enter = ui.input(|i| i.key_pressed(egui::Key::Enter));
     let db = vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global();
-    // The current family by its own name (a document may name it in Japanese: ヒラギノ角ゴシック).
-    let current = db.canonical(current, "").0;
+    // The current family by its own name (a document may name it in Japanese: ヒラギノ角ゴシック),
+    // as it was before any preview.
+    let current = db.canonical(&st.current, "").0;
     let current = current.as_str();
     let favorite = |f: &str| look.favorites.iter().any(|x| x.eq_ignore_ascii_case(f));
     // The generation is read first: fonts that load meanwhile make the next frame list them.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_font_menu.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_font_menu.rs
index a0d4a074..ce6877f0 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_font_menu.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_font_menu.rs
@@ -270,3 +270,61 @@ fn menus_that_only_pick_a_font_leave_the_document_alone() {
     assert_eq!(picked(&mut app, Some(FontPick::Favorite("inter".into()))), None);
     assert!(app.ui.favorite_fonts.is_empty());
 }
+
+/// #563: a preview stays on the text while the menu stays on its family. The menu's caller passes
+/// the text's font, which the preview changed; the menu keeps the font from before the preview as
+/// the current one, so it doesn't take the previewed family for it and end the preview, then
+/// preview it again, every frame (the text flickered).
+#[test]
+fn a_preview_stays_put_while_the_menu_is_still() {
+    let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+    crate::theme::install_fonts(&ctx);
+    let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(Session::new(), Default::default());
+    app.run("file.new", json!({"width": 300, "height": 200})).unwrap();
+    let id = app.session.execute("text.create", &json!({"x": 20, "y": 50, "text": "Gagaku", "font": "Inter"})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap();
+    app.session.execute("select.set", &json!({"ids": [id]})).unwrap();
+    let font = |app: &VectorcraftApp| match &app.session.active().unwrap().doc.node(vectorcraft_doc::NodeId(id)).unwrap().kind {
+        NodeKind::Text(t) => t.first_style().font_family,
+        _ => String::new(),
+    };
+    let revision = |app: &VectorcraftApp| app.session.active().unwrap().revision;
+    // A panel's frame: the menu shows the text's font, and what it picks is applied.
+    let frame = |app: &mut VectorcraftApp, events: Vec<egui::Event>| {
+        let input =
+            egui::RawInput { events, screen_rect: Some(egui::Rect::from_min_size(egui::Pos2::ZERO, egui::vec2(600.0, 800.0))), ..Default::default() };
+        let current = font(app);
+        let (mut at, mut picked) = (egui::Pos2::ZERO, None);
+        let mut out = ctx.run_ui(input, |ui| {
+            crate::font_menu::end_stale_preview(app, ui.ctx());
+            at = ui.next_widget_position();
+            picked = font_menu(ui, "test-steady", &current, 260.0, None, MenuLook::default());
+            if let Some(p) = picked.clone() {
+                crate::font_menu::apply(app, ui.ctx(), p);
+            }
+        });
+        out.textures_delta.clear();
+        (at, picked)
+    };
+    let (at, _) = frame(&mut app, vec![]);
+    let click = at + egui::vec2(40.0, 10.0);
+    let button = |pressed| egui::Event::PointerButton { pos: click, button: egui::PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: Default::default() };
+    frame(&mut app, vec![egui::Event::PointerMoved(click), button(true)]);
+    frame(&mut app, vec![button(false)]);
+    for _ in 0..5 {
+        frame(&mut app, vec![]);
+    }
+    let (_, picked) = frame(&mut app, key(egui::Key::ArrowDown));
+    assert!(matches!(picked, Some(FontPick::Preview(..))), "{picked:?}");
+    let previewed = font(&app);
+    assert_ne!(previewed, "Inter");
+    let rev = revision(&app);
+    for _ in 0..6 {
+        let (_, picked) = frame(&mut app, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(picked, None, "nothing more to apply");
+    }
+    assert_eq!((font(&app), revision(&app)), (previewed, rev), "the preview stays, untouched");
+    // Back on the text's own family, the preview ends.
+    let (_, picked) = frame(&mut app, key(egui::Key::ArrowUp));
+    assert_eq!(picked, Some(FontPick::EndPreview));
+    assert_eq!(font(&app), "Inter");
+}