Choosing Fonts

T.C. Hollingsworth

The font selector appears in many different KDE applications. It lets you select the font face, font style, and font size of the text that appears in your application.

The font selector.

Selecting a font in System Settings.

Font

This is the leftmost selection box, and lets you choose the font face from a list of fonts on your system.

Font style

This is the center selection box, and lets you choose the font style from the following choices:

  • Italic - this displays text in a cursive, or slanted fashion, and is commonly used for citations or to emphasize text.

  • Regular - the default. Text is displayed without any special appearance.

  • Bold Italic - a combination of both Bold and Italic

  • Bold - this displays text in a darker, thicker fashion, and is commonly used for titles of documents or to emphasize text.

Size

This is the rightmost selection box, and lets you select the size of your text. Font size is measured in points, a standard unit of measure in typography. For more information on this, see the Point (typography) article on Wikipedia.

Preview

The bottom of the font selector displays a preview of text using the font settings that are currently selected. You may change this text if you wish.