Your handwriting font in Obsidian

Your handwriting font in Obsidian

Obsidian's Appearance settings let you pick any font installed on the device. Install the TTF on your computer, or the profile on iPhone or iPad, then choose it under Settings, Appearance, Text font.

Whole vault

  1. Install the font (TTF on desktop, profile on iPhone or iPad).
  2. Obsidian: Settings, Appearance, Font, Text font, Manage, and add your font by name.
  3. Restart Obsidian if the list has not refreshed.

Headings only (CSS snippet)

  1. Create a file in .obsidian/snippets, for example handwriting.css.
  2. Add: h1, h2, h3 { font-family: "Your Font Name"; }
  3. Enable it under Settings, Appearance, CSS snippets.

Good to know

  • The font name Obsidian wants is the family name inside the TTF, which is the name you gave the font in SnapFont.
  • Reading long notes in a handwriting font gets tiring; most people use it for headings or the daily note title.

Questions people ask

Does Obsidian Sync carry the font to my other devices?
Sync carries the setting and the CSS snippet, not the font itself. Install the font on each device.
Can I bundle the font inside the vault?
Yes, with a CSS snippet using @font-face and a relative path to the TTF stored in the vault. That keeps it portable, at the cost of loading the font from disk each launch.

Make the font first

Print the free sheet, write one page, take one photo. Your first font is free.

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