Add the ability to change font when reading

[GDLiZy]

It is strange for a novel-reading site to lack such a basic feature. At least there should be an option for serif fonts. I very much prefer them over san-serif fonts. And of san-serif fonts, Open Sans is a generic, middling family. There are multiple better alternatives.

Since I made the suggestion, I will also give a few suggestions that are easy to find and look good on the screen and print:

1. San-serif fonts: Helvetica Neue, Cooper Hewitt, and Optima
2. Serif fonts: Charter, Source Serif, and Palatino

People might disagree with my choices, but it is better to have options.

 

[Enkiari]

Options are a good thing. I support this suggestion.

 

[Corty]

 

[Lysander_Works]

I would like more options too. I think the reason it hasn't changed is because, this feels like something that can break more than it would fix.

 

[GDLiZy]

I would like more options too. I think the reason it hasn't changed is because, this feels like something that can break more than it would fix.

I don't see how it would "break more than it would fix."

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

Useful. +1

 

[Lysander_Works]

I don't see how it would "break more than it would fix."

Trust me; in my experience, when something gets added, not everything will work as intended. I'm not saying it isn't worth the effort, just that that effort might be why the features have not been as prioritized.

 

[LewisBerneu]

As a newcomer here, I have an interest in this. I use several different fonts in my writing. I don't want them all levelled out to a single font - especially not Arial or an Arial lookalike which I'm not fond of. So apparently there's no option on this site: am I right?

One answer would be to do a screen grab of the text in Word etc., in the alternate font, and then paste it into the story as an image. But I'm not going there if I can help it!

Suggestions?

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

I absolutely agree!!! I hate sans-serif fonts so much, they're the florescent lighting of the typography world

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I don't see how it would "break more than it would fix."

It depends - if the site is done in DHTML or Javascript or something like that, it should just require tweaking definition pages/style sheets. If it was done in something else, it may be a nightmare to implement.

 

[mysterious_cube]

Have you considered using a browser extension?

 

[locnav]

it's not that hard to change the font. as long as you don't use silly ones that nobody heard of, then you're good. just use classics like garamond, times new roman, verdana, arial, comic sans :P , lucida * etc.