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The Typography category in Design controls body and heading fonts, sizes, weights and line height. Page controls density and spacing.

Pick your fonts

1

Open Typography

In the editor, select Design (or press 2), then open Typography.
2

Choose a body font

Under Body, open Font and search by name. The list is alphabetical and each font appears in its own typeface. Select one to apply it.
3

Choose a heading font

Do the same under Headings.
Typography with Body and Headings font, weight, size, line height and Hyphenation controls

Set body and heading fonts separately

Set the text size

Set Size under Body and Headings separately. Each accepts 6 to 24 pt in steps of 0.1 pt. Body text around 10–11 pt reads comfortably on screen and paper.
Dragging a slider counts as one change, so a single ⌘ Z (Ctrl Z on Windows and Linux) undoes the whole drag.

Choose a density

In Design → Page, Density sets the line height of your body text and the vertical spacing in and between entries: If you set a body line height or spacing that does not match a preset, no density is selected.
Self-hosting operators can mirror Computer Modern fonts for server PDFs. This setting does not change browser font previews or Google-hosted fonts.

Use any font

1

Open the font editor

Open Design → Typography.
2

Choose a body font

Open Font under Body and type part of a font’s name to search. Each font is shown in its own typeface. Choose one to apply it.
3

Choose a heading font

Do the same under Headings.
Advanced Typography with the font family search filtered to Merriweather results

Search fonts by name

The list contains Google Fonts plus the PDF standard fonts Helvetica, Courier and Times-Roman. Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Indic scripts (such as Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu), Amharic and Khmer text are included, and missing characters fall back to a matching Noto font so they still print. Self-hosted instances can serve these fonts from their own font mirror. If that mirror contains only a subset of the catalog, its operator must add a missing family before it can be exported. If none of the available fonts can draw a character, the PDF shows a question mark and leaves room for it so the following text stays readable. The export warning names the missing character. Your saved text stays unchanged, so you can choose another font or edit the character and export again.
Fictional Avery Morgan resume with three question marks in place of unavailable symbols and readable text after them

An unavailable symbol prints as a question mark without overlapping the following text

Exact typography settings

Design → Typography has the same fields for Body and Headings, plus one Hyphenation switch for both:
Typography with Body and Headings font, weight, size, line height and Hyphenation controls

Set body and heading fonts separately

Sizes are stored separately for body text and headings; changing one does not change the other.
Cover letters keep their own Typography controls in Design mode. See Writing a cover letter.