Text Fromatting
Please, I’m begging for a better text formatting system. Different Fonts, Sizes, Colors, and Centering/Siding Text would work wonders for a few of the projects I’m working on. As because those features aren’t accessible here, I have yet to transition those projects.
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Mallory Christine
Dec 4, 2025
This! I stopped using the app almost immediately because the font is so large and can’t be adjusted. My brain hates it and refuses to work with it.
Tarryn-Anne Anderson
Jan 9
Hi Mallory,
Can you say more about this experience? Is your feeling that the text in the manuscript is too large, or the text across the entire app?
Can you also confirm what your standard browser zoom is set to (100% or 90%, for example)?
Best,
Tarryn
Mallory Christine
Jan 12
To answer your second question first, my screen is always set to 100% zoom and widescreen mode.
This is what the font looks like for me in my usual settings:
The manuscript text is way too large for me. It scales with the size of the screen, so if you’re using an average computer screen with the window in widescreen mode, the text looks to be about size 20, which is just not useable for me. I don’t read large print books because they give me a headache, and the manuscript font has the same effect. The only way the font is small enough for me to use is if the screen is minimized by half, and then the margins are so wide that the text appears to have 10 words per line maximum, which is a different flavor of not appealing. The margins in general are way too wide for my brain. While the size of the text makes it accessible to people with vision issues, it makes it un-useable for my flavor of neurodivergence.
I’m also not a fan of writing using non-arial fonts. Serif fonts particularly do not work for my creativity. I hate the look of them, and typing in them makes me not want to write. It’s also the worst font type for people with dyslexia (I don’t have dyslexia, but the way my adhd shows up in text processing can have a lot of the same challenges). I’m not saying you should include the dyslexia font in your font options (although you definitely should, if possible), but having no font options at all isn’t great.
If you want this app to be as accessible as possible to the largest population of writers possible, adding adjustable font settings is probably the best thing you can do. Fonts are the fundamentals of a writing app, and having it one size fits all doesn’t work, especially when the one size is a font and text size that actively makes the application inaccessible to a large number of people. I’ve tried using other writing apps and quit them for this same reason in the past. I’m sure you’ve chosen to do this because it makes coding easier, but I would explore options next if this were my project. For now, I’ve reverted back to google docs for mobile writing.