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Tip of the Week: Change your System Font!

Staring at your Windows Mobile screen day in and day out, you may notice a couple of things, including either that you are bored with the default “Tahoma” font or plain just don’t like the way it looks. Assuming you’ve already turned on ClearType to make the fonts a bit smoother looking, there is a new trick in town to help make your device look new again and maybe even easier to read.

Thanks to Merlin_reloaded & g77 over at the indispensable XDA, you can easily change your system font to one of three new ones: Myriad, Calibri or the most popular Segoe UI (our favorite too). The trick works on WM5 and WM6 Professional devices and maybe even some smartphone versions.

The process if very straight forward: download and install one of the .cab files of the font you prefer and do a soft-reset…and waala! Pretty new fonts. Don’t like the one you just installed? Simply hop to Settings  Add/Remove Programs and un-install, no harm, no foul. Of course, like usual, we here at WMExperts recommend a system backup JIK, but for the most part this is a low-level/low risk system change.

Curious at what Segoe UI looks like? There's a mini gallery to convey the new sharper, clearer fonts in some popular system apps. Take a peek, yo.