Windowblinds
Frustration with Fonts
Saturday, May 19, 2007 by tigerlady | Discussion: Customization Software
Stardock, PLEASE add an option to Windowblinds to LEAVE THE FONTS ALONE! Almost every blind I try the fonts are too small to read or the font color is too light to see. Yes, I can go into properties and change them to what I want but that is extremely tedious when I'm trying out multiple blinds. and YES, I know I can set the fonts to be x amount larger but for some reason that doesn't change all the fonts. I'm trying to create a basic skin in Skin Studio but that's not going very well 
The fonts I'm having the most trouble with are the ones on the taskbar (too light) and the ones in the places list(too small). also all the fonts in advanced properties(active,inactive titlebar, messagebox and menu. If anybody has a template or can offer any advice it would be very much appreciated.
BTW, my preference is to us Segoe Media Center,12,bold.
The fonts I'm having the most trouble with are the ones on the taskbar (too light) and the ones in the places list(too small). also all the fonts in advanced properties(active,inactive titlebar, messagebox and menu. If anybody has a template or can offer any advice it would be very much appreciated.BTW, my preference is to us Segoe Media Center,12,bold.
Vampothika
Reply #2 Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:38 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:38 AM
hi Tigerlady, when you are making a skin for wb, and want a special font (or a font of your choice like you had just said) you also need to import that font into your skin folder and then add it to your skin via skinstudio, otherwise if you upload the skin and some people dont have that font, it wont show on your skin for others to see. as for font size ect..its more of a playing and viewing game,..you just have to keep playing with the settings until you get the right height and weight that suits and FITS on your buttons or menus or whatever, yeah it can be tedious, but the end result is worth it right? You can change the colours of the fonts...for example you said the font on your taskbar is too light?..well when your in skinstudio, click on your taskbar in skin studio, and to the right you will see a list of ATTRIBUTES on the right hand side and one of them says 'text colour' you just open that and choose the colours you want for your text, and if they dont have what you like, you can make a new colour .... I hope this helps, if you still have problems...send me your skin and I can try to help you the best i can...
cheers....
cheers....
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Reply #1 Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:40 AM