Use System default Fonts

[stanleyxu2005]

I'm using Brave 0.10.4 on Win7. I really love this application. I notice one optical issue: The font of Win7 is usually "Segoe UI 9pt", but I guess Brave uses "Arial" or something else overall on Tab, Menu, Adressbar and Bookmark Toolbar.

Do you mind to use system font by default?

[bradleyrichter]

Thanks @stanleyxu2005!

@bbondy We recently talked about this but I'm not sure if we found the answer? There may be a bug if the default is not appearing.

[stanleyxu2005]

In the less folder, there is only font size definition, but no font face definition. I don't know, if you can add a font face and give a try. For windows it will be "segoe ui" (9pt), for mac and linux, the setting is different.

[bradleyrichter]

Perhaps having no definition was supposed to allow the default system font to work.

LMK if you find a solution...

[luixxiul]

+1, on 0.10.4 the Japanese characters are poorly rendered.

I assume the different font sets are used at the same time. Chinese and Japanese characters mixed on Gmail. I think I didn't experience this on 0.10.3.

#2929

[stanleyxu2005]

I don't know if you can change fonts when creating a BrowserWindow.
I see something interesting.

const win = new BrowserWindow({
  webPreferences: {
    defaultFontFamily: {
      sansSerif: 'segoe ui' // can also try "'segoe ui',arial"
    }
  }
});

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/browser-window.md

If this gonna work, I think the value can be provided in settings window.

[darkdh]

+1 from support
https://linkbubble.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/5727

[stanleyxu2005]

@bradleyrichter I think the recent release has changed the font settings. It looks much better for ASCII chars. But for Chinese and Japanese chars, I still think there can do some tweaks. It would be great, if there is a config file we can customize and test. I don't really have the environment to build Brave from scratch, just for some tweak font tuning. Thanks

[leavehouse]

+1 from me. Chrome and all Chrome-based alternative browsers (like Brave) have this defect, and it's quite annoying. I'm on Ubuntu and use a system font size of 14, but Brave doesn't respect this for tab titles or the address bar, so the text is unreadably small.

[bsclifton]

Closing in favor of brave/brave-browser#696