Fonts

This is the family, not the size. How big the file list's text is belongs to Pane font size; the two are independent, and neither undoes the other.

Bundled families

fman ships eight families, so a theme can ask for a look without depending on what your machine happens to have installed.

Every family is offered under every theme — the pairing above is only what each theme asks for by default. Monokai, Dark and Light name no font on purpose.

Roboto and Open Sans are the families fman has always drawn in, and they are the only two that are not on every platform:

Switching

Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run Select font. The list is every family Qt can see — the bundled ones and everything installed on your system — with the active one preselected and marked current, and Theme default first.

Picking one applies immediately, no restart, and is remembered across restarts. Theme default forgets your choice so the active theme decides again.

Reset font does the same thing without opening the picker, the way Reset font size undoes a zoom. Use it when a theme you switched to keeps drawing in the family you once picked.

The list is long, because it really is every installed family — type a few letters instead of scrolling. The palette matches initials too, so jbm finds JetBrains Mono.

A family fman cannot find is not an error

Qt quietly falls back to its own font. fman cannot tell a typo from a family you happen not to have installed, so it never refuses one. If a pick appears to do nothing, the family is not installed under that exact name.

What a theme can ask for

A theme may name a font family beside its colors:

{
	"colors": { "pane_bg": "#000000" },
	"font": "Share Tech Mono"
}

The value is a family name, not a file: anything Qt can see, bundled or installed — Consolas, Menlo, DejaVu Sans Mono. Leaving the key out means "don't touch it", so switching theme always sets the family, fman's default included.

Your own choice wins over the theme's and survives a theme switch, until you pick Theme default again:

The platform defaults

Adding your own font

Every .ttf in a plugin's directory is registered when that plugin loads, and the search is recursive. Dropping a font into your own plugin folder — or a subfolder of it — makes its family available to Theme.css, to a theme's font key and to Select font, with no packaging step. That is the same mechanism the bundled families use.

To use it without writing a theme, set it in your own %APPDATA%/fman/Plugins/User/Settings/Theme.css:

* { font-family: "My Font"; }

That pins the family against every theme, the way pinning a color does. Select font is the friendlier way to do the same thing, and unlike an edit here it is undoable from the palette.