Solved How to change font in Ubuntu 24.10

[Straitsfan]

Could anybody using ubuntu 24.10 instruct me how to change the font for all applications? What I mean are the fonts used on the desktop, search engine url lines, etc?

 

[KGIII]

search engine url lines

In this case, websites are in charge of that. They declare a specific font (which is wrong) or a font family (which is correct).

Changing your system fonts won't change the fonts used on websites. You'd have to do that in the browser.

You can (according to a search engine) change the fonts used in the browser itself but that'd be a per-browser thing. For example, you'd edit the userChrome.css in Firefox to change the fonts the browser itself uses.

But, websites can still declare a font or a font family.

To that end, open your browser's settings and search for 'font' and you can override the fonts chosen by websites - which might break them or make them look weird. But, you can tell your browser to override the fonts declared by websites. It's right there in your browser's settings.

 

[Straitsfan]

What I meant are the font that is the default font for the Operating system; the font that I see when I first start the computer. Is that more specific? I understand that I can change the font in the browser setting for the browser. I want to change the font (if possible) that is 'loaded' (if that's the right word) for the OS itself.

 

[Condobloke]

I have zero experience with Ubuntu, but it has to have similarities with Linux Mint.....because Linux mint is broadly based on Ubuntu.

In Mint, I simply click on the Menu icon and type in fonts

there has to be a similar approach in Ubuntu, albeit under a different heading.....Possibly under settings ?....or is there a search function ?

 

[KGIII]

I simply click on the Menu icon and type in fonts

As I recall (it has been a minute) that is the way.