Look & Feel: Fonts

Look & Feel: Fonts

Locate & click on the menu option near the top of the window on the sub-menu.

The Fonts tab gives you options to change the size, font, disable shadow & text effects, and more.

Fonts tab.

Font Size
To change the size of the font, either drag the slider

icon or click anywhere along the horizontal line and the slider will jump to that spot. Moving the slider to far left will make the font smaller and to the far right will make it larger.

Font size

Clicking the button will move the slider back to the normal position for that skin. Then click on to change your desktop skin.

Disabling Font Options
To disable shadow and text effects, check the box next to "I do not want shadow and outline text effects used on controls". Controls are things such as buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, progress bars, combo / list boxes, etc.. To re-enable it, simply uncheck the box. Then click on

to change your desktop skin.

To disable system wide fonts the skin uses, check the box for "I do not want to use any system wide fonts defined by this skin". To re-enable it, simply uncheck the box. Then click on to change your desktop skin.

Changing Fonts
To change the font used by the skin, scroll the list to locate & select the desired font. Then click on

to your desktop.

List of fonts.

To return to the font used by the skin, scroll to the top of the list and click on "Allow the skin to decide on the fonts" and click on .

Changing System & Other Fonts
To change fonts used in the skin for specific items, at the bottom of the window click on the text, "You can change system fonts and other fonts defined in a skin by clicking here". This will open a window with the following; edit substyles (like on the Colours tab), select a specific font, change the font, type of font (i.e. normal, bold), effect, and size. Then you can save changes for a font and change another. You can also restore original font settings with "Recover original" (like on the Colours tab).

Change skin fonts.

First, select the substyle from the pull-down to change. You can also create a new substyle based on an existing substyle to save your own changes. This is good so if you ever "Recover original" font settings (for existing substyles), your changes won't be changed. If you created substyles on the Colours tab, you can select one from the list and save font changes to it.

This works the same way as it did when creating a new substyle on the Colour tab. Select "Create new substyle", then type in a name for it and select the base skin from the pull-down menu.

Click on to save changes or to abort (no save), click on or . The saved substyle will appear in the "Change skin fonts" pull-down menu. Next, select a font to edit by clicking on one in the list.

On the left the item gives a brief title of what the font is applied to (i.e. Buttons - All States), followed by the font type (i.e. Segoe UI), ending with the font size (i.e. -11). On the far right, it's: font type (i.e. Segoe UI) and size (i.e. -11).

If you want to change what font is used,
select it from this list.

Then if you want to change the text effect,
select it from this pull-down menu.

To change the style of the font,
select it from this list.

Finally, to change the font size,
either select it from this list or
type the size into the box.

If you ever want to restore font settings (for built-in substyles, not ones you created) to the defaults for that skin, click on "Recover original". Then click on to revert back or to cancel (abort), click or .

Now to save changes (to the desired substyle at the top), click on . Now you can select a different font to edit & save changes. Or you can click on , and then click on to update your desktop skin.

Fonts Quick Reference

Action	Do this
Change font size.	Move the slider icon to the desired size and click .
Restore font size.	Click the button, then click on .
Disable shadow & outline text effects.	Check the box for "I do not want shadow and outline text effects used on controls" & click .
Disable system wide fonts used by skin.	Check box for "I do not want to use any system wide fonts defined by this skin" & click .
Change font used by skin.	Select a font from the list of fonts, and then click on .
Restore font used by skin.	At the top of the list of fonts, click on "Allow the skin to decide on the fonts" & click .
Change specific system, and other fonts used by skin.	Click "You can change system fonts and other fonts defined in a skin by clicking here". Select or create a substyle to store the changes. Assign new fonts, sizes, effects and styles to each system area. When done, click to save changes to the substyle. Click . Click on to apply to your desktop skin.
Apply changes to my skin.	Click on .