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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon postmanlabs

How to set MY font to UI?

Open exec228 opened this issue 2 years ago • 12 comments

Is there an existing request for this feature?

  • [X] I have searched the existing issues for this feature request and I know that duplicates will be closed

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Hello!

The problem is simple and clear: this application has no font configuration. Why this is problem? Because Chrome, therefore, Electron just cannot into fonts. Never could, never will be able.

Describe the solution you'd like

Here I ask, beg, request or demand to introduce a UI font setting for Postman. Please, please, please

Describe alternatives you've considered

I extracted everything from «resources\app.asar». I replaced all mentions «font-family:» in all .css, .html, .js with «font-family: Verdana». I packed everything back to «resources\app.asar». Still, the font not changed.

Additional context

Please, do not ask me to tune my display and OS. It's already in the state I like for most applications. Or else my eyes will be bleeding.

exec228 avatar Aug 18 '23 06:08 exec228

I have activated «View\Developer\Show Dev Tools» and found out that the hated Inter font is addressed from https://desktop.postman.com/_ar-assets/styles/base/_typography.scss which is not located on my PC. This file is forbidden to view directly from a browser.

Now, this issue is even worse, since editing app.asar is not effective any more, indeed.

Please-please-please-please-please, make a desktop application setting to choose a custom UI font!

exec228 avatar Aug 22 '23 11:08 exec228

@exec228 Thanks for bringing this up. Can you please try removing the font-smoothing CSS styles and see it that fixes the issue?

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Or, you can also pick a time that works for you so I can see the issue more closely and help fix it. https://calendly.com/d/4cc-jtz-5kk/fix-fonts

amrindersandhu avatar Sep 07 '23 15:09 amrindersandhu

@exec228 Checking back on this. Were you able to resolve the issue? Did the above solution work?

amrindersandhu avatar Sep 25 '23 23:09 amrindersandhu

@amrindersandhu Hi! I wrote a direct email to you

exec228 avatar Sep 28 '23 04:09 exec228

Have you received an email on 2023-10-04?

exec228 avatar Oct 06 '23 06:10 exec228

@exec228 Yes, I will revert to it today and, if required, set up a call between us early next week.

amrindersandhu avatar Oct 06 '23 14:10 amrindersandhu

Informations de diagnostic pour les administrateurs : Serveur de génération : SA1P*********.namprd10.prod.outlook.com *********@hey.com home-mx.app.hey.com Remote server returned '550 5.1.1 *********@hey.com: Recipient address rejected: User unknown'

I have this response twice

exec228 avatar Oct 09 '23 10:10 exec228

I also have needs. I want to change the software font to Monaco instead of just changing the editor. I hope that related options for changing UI font will be provided in the future.

StudentCWZ avatar Nov 06 '23 14:11 StudentCWZ

@StudentCWZ Can you please share why you need to change the app UI font? This will help us with understanding the problem and come up with a better solution.

amrindersandhu avatar Nov 07 '23 03:11 amrindersandhu

Because everyone will have their own favorite and commonly used programming fonts. It might be better if there is an option to change the UI font so that each user can choose the font they like to use. Postman is a software I often use. For me, I still hope that postman can provide an option to change the UI font. @amrindersandhu

StudentCWZ avatar Nov 08 '23 00:11 StudentCWZ

I will add my penny:

  1. MSWindows has non-optimal anti-aliasing. All fonts seem unfocused and blurred. My eyes are bleeding.

  2. I switched off anti-aliasing on my MSWindows totally. Most fonts look very scary (screenshot attached above). My eyes are bleeding.

  3. My solution is... Pixel perfect fonts! What are these? By Joel Spolsky's excellent description, it is a simple MS solution for raster displays. Just make fonts fit pixels. And MS indeed designed and released "MS Web Core fonts". As simple as it is! This collection has the reading-pleasant (NOTA BENE!) Verdana, and the optimal-looking Courier New, to name a few.

  4. Actually, there are very few pixel perfect TrueType fonts in the wild. PT Mono is a very rare example of one.

  5. Eventually, I configured almost all applications with Verdana/PT Mono. Including MSWindows itself.

  6. And I encounter plenty of Electron shlocks, with InterSegoeIBMPlexMono nightmare fonts hardcoded and welded into it. I can only tear app.asar apart, chase and scorch out these fonts from all CSS embedded, to pack app.asar back with fonts specified by me.

And now, out of the blue, Postman tries to evade this procedure, by hot-loading online CSS with these hateful fonts!

As Electron is the ugly Chrome (Chrome works with fonts even worse than MSWindows does), it supports --disable-remote-fonts command line argument. It should force Postman to use system (my system, Verdana and PT Mono) fonts, but all button glyphs are destroyed as well.

One must invent some way to substitute online resources by offline ones, which can be fixed by one's taste.

Or we just can convince Postman Developers to add an option for custom GUI fonts.

exec228 avatar Nov 10 '23 05:11 exec228

@exec228 Checking back on this. Were you able to resolve the issue? Did the above solution work?

So, the designers team is happy with these illegible fonts? TzS3FSr 1

exec228 avatar Jul 11 '24 10:07 exec228

UWP apps include Ctrl or CMD zoom+/- to change the IDE font size. Can this be added?

capegreg avatar Jan 13 '25 14:01 capegreg