Can I change the Ubiquity font?
is there any way I can change the font used for Ubiquity? Currently looks like Times New Roman which looks terrible. There is also a border around the window that looks like it shouldn't be there. (Vista x64 with Firefox 3.0.1).
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Inappropriate?If you're brave, you can get the source code version of Ubiquity (requires Mercurial) and edit ubiquity/chrome/content/browser.css to change anything about the styles you want.
Unfortunately there's no way to change it through the UI right now. Consider your feature request acknowledged.
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Inappropriate?Just look into menu Tools->Options->Content->Fonts&Colors->Default Font
Choose font you like and restart Firefox -
That's not so helpful if you only want to change Ubiquity's font, not that of the whole browser... -
Inappropriate?Kirtay has made a real nice skin for ubiquity, and also a tutorial.
http://tinyurl.com/59rh5f
It looks a lot better and has different font.
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Inappropriate?I'm thinking that you can access pblock's style properties and set it that way... not 100% sure and am testing it now
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Inappropriate?I just tested by resetting font size. It works.
That was with the pblock. I'm pretty sure you can also set the rest. It's just a matter of hacking through the elements. Just use the dom to list the parent node for pblock, and list the child nodes of that parent, and go up the list.
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Inappropriate?If you have the Stylish extension add this rule (if you don't you'll have to locate your userContent.css in your profile directory):
@-moz-document url("chrome://ubiquity/content/preview.html") {
body{
font-family:"arial","helvetica",sans-serif
}
}
obviously change fonts to taste
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Inappropriate?You can find the theme's CSS file pretty easily. It's in your profile folder.
C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\your profile\extensions\ubiquity@labs.mozilla.com\chrome\content\preview.css
Just add the font to the following to the end of the "body" declaration.
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #BBB;
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
}
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this answers the question
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Thanks! That works fine on Linux as well ~/.mozilla/firefox/YOURPROFILE/extensions/ubiquity@labs.mozilla.com/chrome/content/preview.css ;) -
Inappropriate?Usually it is as easy as editing the CSS files.
Josh nailed it.
Arial is good, and if you have Vista/Office '07, Calibri is nice (but you'd have to play around with font sizes).
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