How to Change font-family in Darktable

Hi there.

In this post, I introduce how to change font-family in Darktable installed on Windows PC. Darktable is OSS (free) software to process raw images and manage image files.

The software seems a reasonable substitute for Adobe Lightroom, in terms of raw image processing and editing. However, in terms of image file management, it is not so useful... Anyway, the most important thing, Darktable is available on Linux OS!

CSS file to be changed

Default font-family of Darktable is

Sans

, but I hate this font (maybe most of Japanese) as Kanji and Hiragana of this font is aweful.


To change font-family, you edit

C:\Program Files\darktable\share\darktable\darktable.css

. Unfortunately, this file is overwritten by updating, so you will end up editing the file everytime you update XD

In official FAQ section, it is mentioned copying and editting the css file into

C:\Users\[username]\.config\

, but this is not effective on Windows (at least 7).

I tried other ways and found that copying and editting the css file into

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\darktable\

directory is effecitve! Once launched the software that directory is automatically made.

If you cannot see Appdata directory in your username directory, please refer to this page.

change font-family

open the css file and change

font

line.

* {
  font: 10pt Consolas; /* change font. (default: Sans) */
  color: @fg_color;
  background-color: @bg_color;
  border-color: #111111;
  text-shadow:none;
/*  margin: 0; */ /* this makes scroll bars super wide. */
  padding: 0;
  background-image: none;
}

the font by default is

Sans

. Sometimes the font you chose is smaller than Sans. In this case please change font-size (xxpt) a little!



You see that (even if you are non-Japanese) the font after changing is more beautiful!