How To Change The Font In Notion?

Notion has become a huge sensation in note-taking apps. The platform is available to access on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and Web. Mind you, Notion is available free when you use it individually, but limitations do vary for team plans. You can create journals to resume, to-do lists to contracting proposals, and more. Notion is for everyone, especially for those who’s workspace revolves around desktops.

Suppose if you’re creating a journal in Notion under a particular topic, and you wish to use a different font but don’t know how to do so? That would be a frustrating situation, but don’t worry as we got you all covered up.

In this article, we will show you How To Change The Font In Notion. So make sure to follow the article till the end that we have managed to prepared for you. Without further ado, let’s get started.

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Things to Know Before Chaing the Font in Notion

We want you to know some things before changing the font in Notion. ‘You will only get to choose only three fonts in Notion’. Here, Notion does come with some limitations, developers of Notion somehow come up with the decision to provide three fonts rather than getting confused to choose from multiple fonts. This actually saves time, and you can focus more on your content.

How to Change Font in Notion

To change font in Notion, users need to do the following:

Step 1: Visit the Notion app and go on the page where you want to change the font.

Step 2: Click on the three dots located on the top right-hand corner on-page menu.

Step 3: Now, you will get to see three fonts that consist of Default, Serif, and Mono. Just select to choose one of them, and the font will change accordingly.

How to Change the Default Font in Notion

Mind you, it is not possible to change the default font in Notion as the app won’t allow you to do so. Notion uses Sans-Serif Workhorse, as a default font. The reason for this cause is unknown, but you can change the font by visiting the page menu clicking on the three dots option located at the top right corner of the page.

It is expected that developers of Notion will bring some changes for the app users, for font customization.

How to Change Font Size in Notion

When it comes to changing the font size in Notion, you don’t have the option to choose the size. But you can make font size shrink to make it look smaller so that you can fit more content on the page.

Here’s how to do that:

Step 1: Open the page in Notion where you want to change font size, now click on the three horizontal dots located on the top-right corner of the page.

Step 2: Just select the second option that is the ‘Select text’ toggle button. Turn the button on to enable the feature, the text present on your page will be automatically get shrunk.

You can only change the text font size in Notion for non-database pages.

How to Change Font of the Whole Page in Notion

You can easily change the font of the whole page in Notion, which means the font that you will choose will be applied on the whole page. Just open the required page and click on the three horizontal dots located at the top-right corner of the page menu.

Now just select to choose between three fonts in order to apply it on the whole Notion page.

How to Make Font Appear Bigger in Notion

Mind you, there is no such option available yet to make the font appear bigger in Notion. In case if you’re page font is smaller and shrunken, then you might have unknowingly enabled the ‘Small text’ button in Notion, so make sure to disable it to revert back the font size to appear in default bigger size than previous.

To do so, just open the page and click on three horizontal buttons located at the top-right corner of the page. Just toggle off the ‘Small text’ button and you’re good to go.

How to Change the Font Color in Notion.

You can enhance the look of your page that you have created with some decent suitable-looking colors. Here, you also have the option to highlight the text or to change the font color. Follow the steps to do so:

Step 1: Select a particuler character, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, or a whole page in order to change font color of the page.

Step 2: The text editor menu will show up on the selected text.

Step 3: Now, click to choose the ‘A’ option available in the text editor menu, a dropdown menu will appear asking you to select between Color and Background.

Step 4: Now simply choose the font color from the list of options availble.

Step 5: In case you want to highlight the background of the text, pick the color from ‘Background’ section.

As per you selection, the font will automatically change its color or the text background.

How to start writing a new text line with specific colors

To do so, follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Just type the whole sentence, and in between of the sentence type ‘/(color name)’ to change the text color of that entire line. For example, type ‘/blue’ to make the whole line appear in blue.

Step 2: Press Enter on your keyword to make the changes.

How to Change Font Style in Notion

In Notion, you can make change font style into bold, italic, and other font shortcuts techniques to save time. Check out the table mentioned below:

Style	Shortcut keys for Windows	Shortcut keys for Mac
Bold	Control + “b”	Command + “b”
Italic	Control + “i”	Command + “i”
Underline	Control + “u”	Command + “u”
Strikethrough	Control + Shift + “s”	Command + Shift + “s”
Display code in-line	Control + “e”	Command + “e”
Add a comment	Control + Shift + “m”	Control + Shift + “m”
Mention a page	@(page name)	@(page name)

Notion’s Frequently Asked Questions

Here’re some additional FAQ that Notion users commonly ask on Notion community or elsewhere.

Can I Change Font Size on Notion Mobile App?

You can only change the font size on Notion’s desktop or web platforms. Changing font size option is not supported on Notion mobile app.

Cam I Change Font Color on Notion Mobile App?

Yes! you can change the font color on Notion mobile app from the tool bar from your page. There is an option to give color to a new line or highlight the text. You can choose any available color as you prefer.

Conclusion

I agree that Notion does lack a majority of the features when it comes to font customization options. From our side, we have the option to mention the Notion drawbacks in their official feedback section in order to reach the issue to its developers. In fact, some Notion users might have already done that.

Keeping that apart, Notion can do most of the required work smoothly as compared to its competitors. It is expected that Notion developers will bring a huge update in the future.

That’s it for now, hope this helps! You can express your thoughts in the comment section below. Till then, stay tuned for more info.