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Allow user to choose font and font size
It would be cool if user could choose fonts for conversations (and even 20% cooler if telegram would use system-default fonts)
Please add this... current font looks awful and is mostly unusable when Font Smoothing is off.
:+1: without monospaced fonts it's really impossible to use for programming-related discussions
what about a textual prefix like ` or a mode triggered by a button to temporarily switch to a monospaced font for sending code (related) stuff?
The tilde ~ looks like a dash... one of many small gripes about the default font so :+1:
@mark-love It is not anymore in the latest dev release :) Will be in the stable in a week or two.
The defulat font of "Telegram Desktop" is not nice and is also small in Persian language texts.
This feature is really important - since default font in hidpi setting is way too narrow since it's bitmap font. Allowing user to select other font properly supporting hidpi will be more feasible.
@telegramdesktop I'd like to say something cool. I don't know how it will affect the performance, but you are a great developer :+1: So, what if you used Noto fonts (there are many, not sure how will you package them) and detected the language/script of each character in the chat and then use the suitable font for it? :innocent: Or maybe better, implement a font setting dialog to select a different font for each language/script. Because selecting one font only can cause problems such as bad-looking characters.
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It is not anymore in the latest dev release :) Will be in the stable in a week or two.
is this comment still valid? ;-)
I agree. By default, Telegram should use the default sans-serif font for your computer's settings. For example, by default, I use Helvetica, so Telegram should use that font too. Is there any configuration file that I can edit to manually change the font, or do I have to compile from source to change it?
Not trying to derail the conversation, but I figured out how to change the font by modifying the source code and recompiling.
Assuming that you have three fonts to replace Open Sans in regular, bold, and semibold, place them in SourceFiles/art/fonts. Rename them to something simple that you don't mind typing a few times. Next, type grep OpenSans to find where they reference the font files that are currently in there. There will be a lot of references, especially in flatinput.cpp, text.h, and text.cpp, as well as some other places. Most of these are little fixes for the Open Sans font, so you can safely ignore them (at least, I think so).
I ended up replacing the Open Sans TTF files in SourceFiles/gui/twidget.cpp, SourceFiles/telegram.qrc, recompiled, and it works so far! I'll post any fixes if any are necessary, as I've only tested it for a bit.
I think following operating system's default font settings is the least Telegram can do. Although it must be a font with all the emoji embedded in them. Some fonts don't have them or they're partially included. Maybe use one font for Texts and another for emoji?
I'd love telegram to respect the system font settings as well, or at least prioritise it. For the code font, it goes through four fonts including courier before trying the system font. Which just looks ugly, and would likely come back as the system monospace font if it were installed anyway.
Hello. Dear Telegram Desktop developers, I wish at least say that you plan to add this feature to the Telegram or not! While the number of users requesting this feature are so much...
@neesti ∞ people need to add reaction :+1: here for developers hear them and add some new feature. Just ∞ — It's not big value. 😊
It's a joke
@DaFri-Nochiterov This feature is pretty hard to implement, because fonts and styles are configured on build time, so lots of things should be changed.
OSX has a beautiful and functional font "San Francisco" since Nov 2014. Since Telegram does not use this default font, it looks inconsistent and lacking behind other application on the platform.
I'd love a monospace font! It makes formatting rules in groups so much easier!
Here are some lists of good free monospaced fonts: https://gist.github.com/Earnestly/7024056
And a wikipedia page of some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samples_of_monospaced_typefaces
Please add the feature and rescue Korean users suffering under ugly Gulim font!
I would like to able to not just change font but also adjust hinting and subpixel rendering on linux.
As you can see in the picture, the rest of the desktop has subpixel rendering disabled and full hinting enabled which gives me the sharp and clear fonts I want while telegram's fonts look butt ugly.
I use iMac, oh I can't tell you guys how hard to read anything from the desktop app, it's sooooooooo small. I really hope they will add this feature
