Open the project, choose Project > Project Settings, then click Formatting. If you've set the default font settings as explained above, and you want to change them for a specific project, you can do this using the Project Settings dialog. If you ever want to reset the font settings to the default, click Defaults on the Editing settings dialog. If you dont like the fixed-width fonts available on your computer, try the beautiful DejaVu Mono font. You can see that these settings also allow you to set fonts for Notes, Inspector comments, and footnotes. Answer To change text font commonly used in editors, select Basic->Text Font colorsandfontsbasictextfont.png Change the font, font style, and size as. On Windows, you'll see the name of the font in that position.) You don't need to save these settings Scrivener automatically updates the defaults to what you set in this dialog. (Note that, on Mac, the font menu displays when you click the Aa button. Just use the menus and buttons - which are the same here as in the Editor - and you'll see the sample text change. If you want to adjust your font settings in the Preferences / Options, you can do so. (You can also apply these settings by clicking anywhere in a paragraph that contains the settings you want to save, then choosing Format > Make Formatting Default.) Note that if you do this, it will not affect documents you've already created that are using different settings.
Scrivener will adopt all the settings you've made, as described above, to new documents. One way to set your defaults is to click Use Formatting in Current Editor. The final font setting is line spacing, which in the screenshot below is set to 1.1. You can choose a style, and set alignment (ragged right, centered, ragged left, or justified). You can set the font weight (regular, italic, bold, or bold italic), from the menu that says Regular in the screenshot below you can also click the B, I, and UĀ buttons to apply bold, italic, or underline character styles. You do this by selecting text in a file, then choosing options in the Format Bar, where you can see options for the font (Palatino, in the screenshot below). You can choose to use this font if you wish, or change it.
Note that the default font in Scrivener for Mac is Palatino, and for Windows it is Calibri. You can make text bold, italic, or underlined, you can change its color, and you can highlight text. You can choose a font, size, alignment, and spacing, and you can set margins and tabs. While Scrivener is very different from standard word processors, one element that is similar is the way fonts display in the Editor.
Most writers want to set fonts once and for all, and never change them, and I'll show you how to set the defaults for new projects.
This week, I want to discuss how you can work with fonts in the Editor: how to change the font, size, alignment, and more. I discussed zooming to change the display, setting the Editor width, and adjusting margins, along with some other elements that you can change in Scrivener's options. In last week's article, I explained how you can tweak the Editor to make it more comfortable to use.