How to use your favorite font in Slack

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In Slack, you can change the font using /slackfont My Favorite Font to set it to any font you like. (The settings dialog only offers a fixed selection.)

If you installed Slack through Snap, this only works with system-wide installed fonts (i.e. fonts located in /usr/share/fonts/ or /usr/local/share/fonts/).
Fonts from ~/.local/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts/ are usually inaccessible to Snap applications, so Slack will default to Lato (its standard font).

Only the sans-serif font can be changed. The monospaced font used for code blocks isn't easily customizable without workarounds.

To reset to the default font, use /slackfont without an argument.

Arne Hartherz
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Arne Hartherz
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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2025-01-29 06:54)