UPDATE: Microsoft has removed this feature for reasons best known to them. However, there is a built-in system level font size changer in Windows 10 which you can use to change the font size in Sticky Notes. Refer to our how to change the text size in Windows 10 guide for directions.
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Sticky Notes program was first offered with Windows Vista. Since then, Sticky Notes program has been part of every version of Windows operating system, including the latest Windows 10.
With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607), Microsoft replaced the classic desktop Sticky Notes program with Sticky Notes app.
Although the built-in Sticky Notes is fairly popular among PC users, Microsoft never offered easy ways to change the default font, font size, and other ways to customize notes. We could use keyboard shortcuts to change the font size and customize notes in the classic Sticky Notes program, but all these keyboard shortcuts do not work with the modern Sticky Notes app in Windows 10 Anniversary Update and above versions.
It seems that Microsoft has listened to feedback and decided to offer a few settings to customize notes in Sticky Notes. Microsoft has updated the Sticky Notes app to add more features and options to the app.
The Sticky Notes app now supports adjusting the default font size used in Sticky Notes app. Starting with Sticky Notes version number 2.1.3.0, you can increase or reduce the font size with ease without using keyboard shortcuts. Black ops 2 remastered. In addition to the font size changer, version 2.1.3.0 also brings in a new color picker.
You must be running Windows 10 build 17083 or later to get version 2.1.3.0 of Sticky Notes.
Change font size in Sticky Notes in Windows 10
Here is how to change the font size in Sticky Notes in Windows 10.
Step 1: Open the Sticky Notes app.
Step 2: Click the three dots on the title bar of the app to see the settings. Click settings.
Step 3: Move the font size slider to adjust the font size. Move it to the left to reduce the font size and move the slider to the right to increase the font size.
You can see the live preview of the new font size on the same page. Set the slider to your desired font size and leave it there to save the setting. That’s it!
We now expect to see an option to change the default font in the Sticky Notes app.
You might also like to read our how to recover deleted Sticky notes in Windows 10 guide.
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How can the default font be changed for the Windows 7 Sticky Notes application? I can't stand that faux handwriting font it uses.
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Here's a .reg file you can just double-click that will change the Segoe fonts to the Consolas within the registry. Created and tested working on Windows 8.1 Preview
Linked code:
Log out and the font used by the Sticky Notes app should be legible.
keyvankeyvan
There are workarounds.
If you cut-and-paste text from another program, let's say Word, to a Sticky Note, that note will take on the original fonts the text was in.
To change size, luckily there are keyboard shortcuts..
Ctrl + Shift + > makes the font bigger
Ctrl + Shift + < makes the font smaller
There is a complete list of keyboard shortcuts available here.
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I know this is an old question, but I have an answer that might be better than deleting the font, but will still render the Segoe Print font useless.In the registry, you can change the font that Windows thinks is Segoe Print and Segoe Print Bold
AaronAaron
There is a workaround for the default font in sticky notes.
The default typeface for notes is Segoe Print and if you don't use this font for anything else you can delete it from your system, after which sticky notes will use MS Sans Serif as the default font.
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Answer by NudeRaider
You can download a .MUI editor and modify the sticky notes mui file and change the font to whatever you want.
'C:WindowsSystem32en-USStikyNot.exe.mui'
First of all thanks for the tip with the MUI file. With it I could successfully change the default font the sticky notes are using. Btw. plain notepad works fine for editing.
To solve the access denied problem you have to be administrator, and take control of the file first and then add full access permissions for your user name.
Step by step:
- right click the file -> properties - Security tab -> advanced - Owner tab -> edit - click your user name -> OK - Permissions tab -> change permissions - add.. - enter your user name (or click advanced to search for it) -> OK - click the top left check box (allow > full access) -> OK - OK -> OK -> OK that's it, now you can access the file.
Then you can remove the write protection but you still can't overwrite the file because notepad doesn't let you save in that folder. So save the edited MUI file elsewhere and copy it into the en-us folder. Then restart your computer or it won't take effect.
Also note that the en-us folder depends on your system language (e.g. de-de for german), but the filename itself always stays StikyNot.exe.mui.
IMHO, switching to something like http://pnotes.sourceforge.net/ would be your best bet.
BobBob
You can copy the text into a Notepad window and change the font there to whatever you like and then copy the text back into the note, and the font will stick.
I also found a nice freeware tool named StickyTool that expands the functionality of the Windows 7 Sticky Notes. The current version, however, is not able to change the default font of the Sticky Notes application, but I know from one of the developers that they want to integrate that in a future version.
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In the early days of the Sticky Notes for Windows 10, the option was there for users to change the font size of text quite easily. For some strange reason, Microsoft removed this feature with the latest update. Therefore, the Sticky Notes app is worse off than before. Now, that doesn’t mean it’s not possible to change the font size anymore. It simply means that users must now take additional steps to get the job done instead of doing it directly from the app itself.
We have to say, the removal of the font feature to change its size is a strange one. We remember a time when this was a much asked for feature, so to see the software giant choosing to add it, then take it away, it makes us wonder who thought this was a good idea.
Now let us see how to change the font size in the Sticky Notes because that’ what you’re here for.
Change Font size in Sticky Notes in Windows 10
We need to venture off to the Ease of Access section of the Settings app because that’s where we’re going to work some magic.
Fire up the Settings app by pressing the Windows key + I, then navigate to the Ease of Access section below, and click on it.
After entering the Ease of Access menu, select Display from the list of options, and from there, you should see something that says “Make text bigger.” You simply need to use your mouse to move the slider to change the size of the font.
Bear in mind that this method will change the font size of everything in Windows 10 instead of just the Sticky Notes app alone.
This method is best because it only changes the font size of apps instead of delivering a wholesale change across the board. To make it happen, scroll under Display until you’ve come across an option that says “Change the size of apps and text on the main display.”
Here you’ll see that the option is 100 percent, but you’ll want to change that to 125%. Click on the drop-down menu, select 125%, then go ahead and restart your Windows 10 computer.
Launch the Sticky Notes app and test if the problem persists. If nothing changes, then you should consider switching to a free third-party Sticky Notes app. There are several options available, so check them out.
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Sticky Notes program was first offered with Windows Vista. Since then, Sticky Notes program has been part of every version of Windows operating system, including the latest Windows 10.
With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607), Microsoft replaced the classic desktop Sticky Notes program with Sticky Notes app.
Although the built-in Sticky Notes is fairly popular among PC users, Microsoft never offered easy ways to change the default font, font size, and other ways to customize notes. We could use keyboard shortcuts to change the font size and customize notes in the classic Sticky Notes program, but all these keyboard shortcuts do not work with the modern Sticky Notes app in Windows 10 Anniversary Update and above versions.
It seems that Microsoft has listened to feedback and decided to offer a few settings to customize notes in Sticky Notes. Microsoft has updated the Sticky Notes app to add more features and options to the app.
The Sticky Notes app now supports adjusting the default font size used in Sticky Notes app. Starting with Sticky Notes version number 2.1.3.0, you can increase or reduce the font size with ease without using keyboard shortcuts. In addition to the font size changer, version 2.1.3.0 also brings in a new color picker.
You must be running Windows 10 build 17083 or later to get version 2.1.3.0 of Sticky Notes.
Change font size in Sticky Notes in Windows 10
Here is how to change the font size in Sticky Notes in Windows 10.
Step 1: Open the Sticky Notes app.
Step 2: Click the three dots on the title bar of the app to see the settings. Click settings.
Step 3: Move the font size slider to adjust the font size. Move it to the left to reduce the font size and move the slider to the right to increase the font size.
You can see the live preview of the new font size on the same page. Set the slider to your desired font size and leave it there to save the setting. That’s it!
We now expect to see an option to change the default font in the Sticky Notes app.
You might also like to read our how to recover deleted Sticky notes in Windows 10 guide.
Image credit to Jen
Microsoft Sticky Notes Font Change
Like other text editor's sticky notes template window can also be re-sized by dragging its corner to any side. But customizing text format is not ease in sticky notes, like doing in other applications. With few color combinations for template background and single text font style, sticky notes limit its customization features. If you're one among the millions of sticky note user who expect some more customization feature from this handy application to take quick notes, here we would like to explore some of the tricks to customize the notes of this small applet program. Additionally, sticky notes support pen and touch input on PC/TABLET with a touchscreen display, so the user can add their own font style with bare hands without a need for a keyboard to input text into it. Even though it's not a good idea to save the user access passwords on sticky notes, but with your own font style, you can create secret text notes and hints that only understood by you, which reminds you of your passwords. Sticky Notes Change Font RegistryHow to change sticky note background color? Since sticky notes have no naming feature its hard to differentiate, if two or more sticky notes of the same size pasted and floating on the desktop screen, However, we can easily distinguish each notes varying with its size and color. By default sticky notes has 6 different color's to choose from, just right click on the sticky notes screen and choose any of the 6 colors from the list. Also Read: Notepad tricks to make your computer to speak whatever you type
Having different color's of sticky notes template will let you easily organize the notes floating on the desktop screen without any trouble and confusion to choose a preferred note.
How to format sticky notes text? Sticky notes are widely used for its simple design and few basic controls, Since it doesn't have a graphical user interface to format the text like word pad and notepad files, nevertheless it supports keyboard shortcut key combination to format the text style.
Lack of visual controls to format sticky notes text style were compromised with these shortcut keys to make people stick with sticky notes. How to change sticky notes default font type? As we said before sticky note UI is very simple and adequate enough for average user's, but if you are bored of the standard antique font(Segoe Print) and expect a change of different font style, you can easily change the font to any style available on the web.
Sticky Notes Font SettingsSimply copy the text note from your sticky note apps and add it to any of your document applications such as Wordpad, MS-office files etc. and change its font style, color and edit text format from there, and then copy the formatted text and paste it on the sticky notes once again. The text edited on WordPad and MS word will remain the same on a sticky note when copied and pasted onto it.To change default typing text font of sticky notes
The above method is used to change the typed text, but if you want to type text with your favorite font type, replacing the default font type, just do the simple steps below.
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Warning: Replacing the Segoepr.ttf value with another font styles, will affect every application, so whenever the segoepr.ttf font style is selected, it will be automatically replaced with the edited font style.
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