{"id":4339,"date":"2016-10-11T21:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2019-06-14T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T05:35:09","slug":"change-regedit-font-face-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/change-regedit-font-face-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Registry Editor Font Face in Windows 10 Creators Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registry Editor in Windows 10 Redstone 2 Preview build 14942 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/registry-editor-gets-address-bar-feature-windows-10\/\">got an Address bar<\/a> as we saw earlier. The Redstone 2 Preview build introduces another minor feature addition to the Registry Editor. You can change the default Registry Editor font, without having to change the global font settings &#8211; that is, without affecting other areas of the Windows Shell.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (Dec 2016):<\/strong> As of Windows 10 Creators Update (or Redstone 2) Insider Preview Build 14986, the Registry Editor font face can be changed using the built-in menu options. No need to change the registry entry manually. From Regedit&#8217;s <strong>View<\/strong> menu, click <strong>Font<\/strong>. You can change the font face, font style and font size in the dialog that appears.<\/p>\n<h2>Registry Editor font face settings<\/h2>\n<p>The Registry Editor font settings are stored in the following key:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Regedit<\/pre>\n<p>The string value named <strong>FontFace<\/strong> stores the font name, such as Georgia, Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Segoe UI, Segoe UI Light, Segoe UI Bold etc.<\/p>\n<p>Font style and size settings are stored in other registry values (given below). Here is the list of registry values where the Regedit font preferences are stored.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FontFace &#8211; REG_SZ value &#8211; Contains the font name.<\/li>\n<li>FontItalic &#8211; REG_DWORD value &#8211; Value data can be 1 or 0.<\/li>\n<li>FontWeight and FontHeight &#8211; REG_DWORD values &#8211; Store the font weight or thickness value.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/regedit-default-font.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"660\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As said earlier, you don&#8217;t have to tweak the registry manually, as the feature is incorporated in the Registry Editor GUI as of Windows 10 Creators Update Build 14986.<\/p>\n<h2>Screenshots<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Calibri.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/georgia.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4341\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Impact.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4342\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LucidaSansUnicode.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4343\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SansSerif.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4344\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SegoeUI.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4345\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SegoeUIBold.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4346\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SegoeUILight.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4347\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TimesNewRoman.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4348\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Trebuchet.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4349\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TrebuchetBold.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/verdana.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/comicsans.png\" alt=\"change registry editor font in windows 10\" width=\"582\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registry Editor in Windows 10 Redstone 2 Preview build 14942 has got an Address bar as we saw earlier. The Redstone 2 Preview build introduces another minor feature addition to the Registry Editor. You can change the default Registry Editor font, without having to change the global font settings &#8211; that is, without affecting other &#8230; <a title=\"Change Registry Editor Font Face in Windows 10 Creators Update\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/change-regedit-font-face-windows-10\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Change Registry Editor Font Face in Windows 10 Creators Update\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[127,441],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-creators-update","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4925,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/switch-hklm-hkcu-regedit-go-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":4339,"position":0},"title":"Switch between HKCU and HKLM quickly in Registry Editor","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Registry Editor in Windows 10 has a useful option that allows you to switch quickly between a registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER when an identical branch exists under both. 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