# Feature request: please let me configure font name/size for the whole app GUI and for the editor

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-please-let-me-configure-font-name-size-for-the-whole-app-gui-and-for-the-editor/13975>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [16 January 2021 22:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-please-let-me-configure-font-name-size-for-the-whole-app-gui-and-for-the-editor/13975 "2021-01-16T22:33:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![lonely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@lonely](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/lonely)\
**Post date:** [16 January 2021 22:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-please-let-me-configure-font-name-size-for-the-whole-app-gui-and-for-the-editor/13975/1 "2021-01-16T22:33:33Z")

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See, for example, how [https://marktext.app](https://marktext.app) does it in settings - it has dialogs for font name and font size. The average end user will fail to do it the way Joplin currently allows - by fiddling with Development tools and wringing CSS. I fail too. Especially considering that clicking those two Edit buttons in Appearance -\> Show Advanced Settings opens a text editor - sometimes, before I picked vim to open a text file with it in Linux/XFCE from the GUI file manager, Joplin would just print "/usr/bin/wine" (???) in the console - with no content, rather than the current CSS template.

Edit: found [[solved] Option control of appearance of sidebar & note list (font size and theme) - #2 by CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/solved-option-control-of-appearance-of-sidebar-note-list-font-size-and-theme/6332/2) but the "Global Zoom Percentage" setting in that screen is missing in my Joplin desktop

Edit: this recipe worked: [Changing non-editor font size](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/changing-non-editor-font-size/6839)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [17 March 2021 22:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-please-let-me-configure-font-name-size-for-the-whole-app-gui-and-for-the-editor/13975/2 "2021-03-17T22:33:36Z")

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