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