Steps to change the font on Android smartphones

Installing a new font is simply done by just clicking a button or just pasting the font files into the fonts folder.

To personalize your phone, changing the system fonts is one great way. Since a simple font change can facelift the entire system interface to look fresh and cool. While installing a new font is quite easy and is simply done by just clicking a button or just pasting the font files into the fonts folder. On the other hand, in the case of Android phones, the process is a little different.

Notably, many OEMs already include the option to alter the system fonts. Whereas the number of available fonts would differ from phone to phone. Also, if your smartphone doesn’t have built-in options to do this, third-party launchers can help to achieve the same. Additionally, one can get root access in order to take charge of customization.

Change the system font with built-in tools

Smartphone makers including Samsung and various others allow users to shuffle the system font. While their options are a little vary from each other. While the options to change are commonly straightforward.

Here below, we going to describe the steps to change the fonts on Samsung smartphones. These steps are a little similar for other manufacturers also, and to try the same, head towards the display or themes in the settings.

Changing the font on Samsung phones

Note: You can also download more fonts from Samsung Galaxy Store.

Using a launcher to change the font

If you carry a phone that doesn’t provide built-in support for changing fonts. While you don’t want to root it, in such a scenario, you can use a third-party launcher like Nova. This is a launcher tool that can only work for changing the fonts for the launcher elements only but not the full system.

Steps to use Nova Launcher

Font apps for rooted phones

Meanwhile, if somebody is able to fetch root access on your phone then in that case you can use apps like FontFix and iFont. These third-party apps can easily download and install new fonts on your device. Both these offer hundreds of fonts to opt from.

Also, if you are comfortable working with a file explorer with root access, then make sure to create a backup before proceeding with it. It can be done manually also by replacing the TTF file in /system/fonts and changing permissions to rw-r-r respectively.

Steps to change the font on Android smartphones

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