Simple hook tool to change Win32 program font. Works with some GDI/GDI+ or Qt based program.
Proven workable on Telegram Desktop, Kleopatra (Gpg4Win) and Mendeley Desktop.
Download FontMod{32,64,ARM,ARM64}.dll
and rename to one of following:
dinput8.dll
, dinput.dll
, dsound.dll
, d3d9.dll
, d3d11.dll
, ddraw.dll
, winmm.dll
, version.dll
, d3d8.dll
(d3d8.dll
is 32bit only).
Then put in the folder of program exe.
User font: Put fonts in fonts
folder to use them directly, don't need to install to system.
Will create FontMod.yaml
on first run. Config file uses UTF-8 encoding. Support UTF-8 BOM.
style: &style
# Remove '#' to override font style
# size: 0
# width: 0
# weight: 0
# italic: false
# underLine: false
# strikeOut: false
# charSet: 0
# outPrecision: 0
# clipPrecision: 0
# quality: 0
# pitchAndFamily: 0
fonts:
SimSun: &zh-cn-font # Chinese (Simplified) fallback font
replace: Microsoft YaHei
<<: *style
PMingLiU: # Chinese (Traditional) fallback font
replace: Microsoft JhengHei UI
<<: *style
MS UI Gothic: # Japanese fallback font
replace: Yu Gothic UI
<<: *style
Gulim: # Korean fallback font
replace: 맑은 고딕
<<: *style
#fixGSOFont: true # true is to use system UI font
#fixGSOFont: *zh-cn-font # Or replace with user defined font
#gdiplus:
# SimSun:
# replace: Microsoft YaHei
# Microsoft YaHei:
# size: 72.0
# style: regular
## style: 0
# unit: point
## unit: 3
#gdipGFFSansSerif: Calibri
#gdipGFFSerif: Times New Roman
#gdipGFFMonospace: Consolas
debug: false
fonts
key ("SimSun")
: Font name to modify.replace
/ name
: Font name to replace.size
width
weight
italic
underLine
strikeOut
charSet
outPrecision
clipPrecision
quality
pitchAndFamily
: Override original font style. Please refer to MSDN docs. If you don't want to override, delete these items.fixGSOFont
Replace GetStockObject font, the options is same as fonts
above. If set to true
will use SystemParametersInfo to get system font.
gdiplus
Replace GDI+ font. Due to limitation of GDI+, you can only replace a font with another (SimSun
-> Microsoft YaHei
), or change the style of a font.
key ("SimSun")
: Font name to modify.replace
/ name
: Font name to replace.size
: Font size.style
: Font style. Possible values are: regular
bold
italic
boldItalic
underline
strikeout
. Or you can just write integer value of FontStyle enumeration.unit
: Unit of size. Possible values are: world
display
pixel
point
inch
document
millimeter
. Or you can just write integer value of Unit enumeration.gdipGFFSansSerif, gdipGFFSerif, gdipGFFMonospace Replace GDI+ generic font family. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/gdiplus/-gdiplus-fontfamily-flat)
debug Debug mode (Will log information to FontMod.log).
YAML supports
anchors(&)
andreferences (*)
(Please refer to Wikipedia), this tool also supports not mandatory Merge Key function in YAML spec. You can reuse data like config file above, and don't need to copy multiple times like JSON.If you want replace only CJK fonts and keep English font, you need to set
key
to CJK fallback font. This font may be different in different language environments. (For example in Chinese simplified environment is SimSun), you can use debug mode to find corresponding font.