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Change Thunderbird's default font and font colour

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Rasheed A.Z.
Rasheed A.Z.
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Is there a way to change the system font and colour (not message)?

Thanks.

Is there a way to change the system font and colour (not message)? Thanks.

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Proceed as follows:

  • Open the Config Editor, search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and toggle it to true
  • Use the following code in your userChrome.css file: 
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

*{
font-size: 9pt !important;
font-family: Roboto !important;
color: #808080; !important;
}
  • Restart Thunderbird.

Omit the font-size line if you don't wish to change the size. 9pt is the default size in Windows. Change the color code to a shade of gray that you want. This may help. You must of course install Roboto first. Attached is a screenshot of the result on my end.

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Stans
Stans
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The font face or size?

Rasheed A.Z.
Rasheed A.Z. Question owner
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Well, I wanted the Roboto font for the entire UI and grey colour instead of the default black. Thanks.

Modified by Rasheed A.Z.

Stans
Stans
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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1198055

Rasheed A.Z.
Rasheed A.Z. Question owner
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Thanks for replying but it looks like that addon is not available any more. I also tried the userChrome.css method but nothing changed :(

Stans
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Chosen Solution

Proceed as follows:

  • Open the Config Editor, search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and toggle it to true
  • Use the following code in your userChrome.css file: 
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

*{
font-size: 9pt !important;
font-family: Roboto !important;
color: #808080; !important;
}
  • Restart Thunderbird.

Omit the font-size line if you don't wish to change the size. 9pt is the default size in Windows. Change the color code to a shade of gray that you want. This may help. You must of course install Roboto first. Attached is a screenshot of the result on my end.

Rasheed A.Z.
Rasheed A.Z. Question owner
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Thanks for the excellent answer Stans. It finally worked. Part of the problem was with Windows - just installing the font set one one didn't seem to work until I copied and pasted the whole font family into the Windows font folder.

I'm astonished at how much difference just a font and colour change did to the look! It's looking a little less dated and more like Mailspring now. I decided on this btw:

  • {

font-size: 12pt !important; font-family: Roboto Light !important; color: #404040; !important; }

Modified by Rasheed A.Z.

Tony
Tony
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I have the same question/problem. Where is userChrome.css located?

I'm using Win 10 x64.

Modified by Tony

Stans
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Tony said
I have the same question/problem. Where is userChrome.css located?

It doesn't exist by default. You have to create it, then save it inside your Tbird profile folder in a subfolder called chrome. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Configuration_Files