How to Change the Font on Adium

Change the font type, color and size displayed in Adium to your font of choice.

Adium is a free, instant messaging application for Mac OS X that allows you to combine the feed from multiple instant messenger logins into a central application. Whether a message comes through Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, you'll receive it through Adium's interface, and any answer will go out through the messenger system that sent it. This convenience comes with some modification ability as well. Though Adium ships with a specific font setup, you can change the font through the program settings. All it takes is a few minutes, and your displayed text will appear precisely as you like, with your chosen font type, color and size.

Instructions

1. Start the Adium instant messenger application, and sign in to your account with your user name and password.

2. Open the Format menu from the main menu toolbar at the top of the application. Select "Show Fonts" to open the Font Panel for altering your font type and color.

3. Type any text into the textbox, and then highlight it by holding your mouse button and dragging the mouse over the text. Select the font you wish to use by highlighting the font family in the Font Panel. This will give you a list of subfonts in the general family grouping. Select a specific font name in the list of subfonts, and then choose a font size in the small panel next to the font names.

4. Change the font color by clicking on the colored box at the top of the Font Panel and choosing a desired font color in the pop-up window. The box will change to your chosen color. Click the button at the bottom of the panel marked "Save This Setting As My Default Font" to use the chosen font type and color whenever you type into the text window and send a message.

References

• Adium Development Wiki: Fonts & Colors

Resources

• Adium