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Can I scale everything at 125%?

I think what you may be looking for can be done by using dconf-editor. If you do not have it installed, you can do so in Terminal with this: sudo apt install dconf-editor Once installed, open dconf-...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?

For versions 5.0 above: gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings font 'FiraCode 10'
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Fonts looks weird at Loki (and just in my user session!). How do I fix it?

I solved it after googling a while; this applies to all gnome based enviroments (at least according to this) Just run the following lines on terminal, then reset the system normally. Done. gsettings ...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?

If you already havent, install elementary-tweaks (For elementary freya): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks Then ...
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What is the default font used by the terminal in elementary os?

The default font for terminal is Roboto Mono 10. You can find all default variables at this repository on github.com : elementary/default-settings
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What system fonts should not be deleted?

Elementary OS System Fonts: Default Font: Droid Sans Regular Document Font: Open Sans Regular Monospace Font: Droid Sans Mono Regular Titlebar Font: Droid Sans Bold I recommend you to save all ...
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Blurry fonts in Atom, Steam and GitKraken

Solution: It was neither Electron nor Elementary OS but the Nvidia driver. All I had to do was disable FXAA Antialiasing in the antialiasing settings. Now everything is sharp again: Atom, GitKraken ...
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In Evince, PDF text is not visible on many files

Allright, I found the fix: It was about clearing and rebuilding the font cache with fc-cache -f -v, but run for the flatpak version of evince, so the command is: flatpak run --command=fc-cache org....
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How can I change the default Terminal font?

You can do many customizations using elementary-tweaks switchboard plugin. But the older repository is not maintained by the original author anymore. Fortunately it's been forked by some other devs ...
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Sublime text font on Elementary

The problem was that I was using googlefonts which I symlinked to my ~/.fonts directory. The link was broken when I was installing some stuff. After cloning the repo again and creating the directory ...
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The Monaco font doesn't work

sudo sed -i '/>Monaco/{N;N;N;s/>Cousine/>Monaco/}' /etc/fonts/conf.avail/31-croscore-elementary.conf
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Change fonts everywhere in OS

You can install the application dconf-editor with your terminal and there you can change these setting. Type in your terminal... sudo apt install dconf-editor Then, after installation finished ...
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Change fonts everywhere in OS

You can try elementary tweaks for do that, you can install it with this common : sudo apt install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/elementary-tweaks sudo apt-get ...
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Font problems in elementary os

The thing that worked for me is Fonts looks weird at Loki (and just in my user session!). How do I fix it? But I got an error: GLib-GIO-Message: 21:06:40.395: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. ...
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Installing fonts in Elementary

You have to install them. Check if Gnome Fonts are installed (normally is), then just click on font file and it will install.
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Elementary OS 6 font seems to be with low resolution

I had exactly same problem. It seems that replacing Inter font with Ubuntu Regular font make things a little better. Also today there is system update in AppCentre which maybe brings some improvements....
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How to force all apps to use system fonts (the ones set using Gnome Tweaks)?

You're going to need to edit your Fontconfig settings. Sadly, Fontconfig is very complex, so I normally only recommend this for experts, but seems you really need to. This guide shows how to do it ...
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Some emojis are black and white in Anki (qt programme) instead of colored like in other applications

All right! After searching around, stumbling upon Twitter Color Emoji (spoiler: doesn't work on Linux - only for Firefox: https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font/issues/10#issuecomment-242988370 ...
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How can I change default font for other language?

Great to see a fellow Thai in here. Now as for the font, I assume you want to change it to Thai serif font. Elementary OS come with both san-serif and serif Thai fonts. All you need to do is change ...
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Installing Infinality

This Reddit thread may help provide some context to the problem: https://reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/5pcjsr/what_happened_to_infinality/
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Screenshot tool messed up system wide fonts

Just disable the option where it says Conceal Text (mine is in Spanish and says Ofuscar Texto) Conceal Text ON Conceal Text OFF
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Screenshot tool messed up system wide fonts

There is a feature that obscures the onscreen text for screenshots by switching the font, taking the screenshot, and then switching the font back. The font obviously hasn't been switched back in this ...
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elementary OS system fonts haywire

Just disable the option where it says Conceal Text (mine is in Spanish and says Ofuscar Texto). Should be a bug that kept the conceal after you used the tool. Conceal Text ON Conceal Text OFF
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elementary OS system fonts haywire

This is likely a bug with the screenshot tool. There is a feature that obscures the onscreen text for screenshots by switching the font, taking the screenshot, and then switching the font back. The ...
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Large font in Pantheon greeter

edit /etc/lightdm/pantheon-greeter.conf for example, I'm using Roboto font for the login screen [greeter] #activate-numlock=true #default-wallpaper=/usr/share/backgrounds/elementaryos-...
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FontViewer v3.20.2 missing icon from "Applications" menu

I recommend Menulibre https://smdavis.us/projects/menulibre/ It's simple GUI to add applications to slingshot and/or change names, icons etc. However, if you want to keep simple. Make a .desktop ...
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Fonts and some graphics disappear / lost after hibernate / sleep / resume / cycle

Prof. Falken. I searched on forums high and low to solve this issue. I can not remember where I found the solution, but this worked for me: sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 The ...
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Noise music player font problem

Looks like a mp3 tag coding issue in some files, you should ensure that all your mp3 tags are in utf-8.
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How can I Change VSCODE sidebar font

/usr/share/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.css Just edit font-family CSS to get different font in sidebar
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