Default font settings

Set your default font settings

You can now customize your default font preferences for each text style (Normal text, Large header H1, Medium header H2, Small header H3). These settings will apply to all new notes you create from that moment on and will sync across all your devices (desktop, web, mobile).

How to set your default font

1. Go to Settings > Preferences > Notes.
2. Under Default font settings, you can customize the following for each text style (Normal text, Large header, Medium header, and Small header):
   • Font style
   • Font size
   • Font color
3. To reset any style back to Evernote’s original defaults, click the circular arrow next to the text style.

Note that normal text settings also apply to these elements:

• • Quotes
  • Links and note links in text view
  • Lists
  • Checkboxes and checklists
  • Text in tables
  • Current date + time

You can also update your default font settings directly while editing a note. Here’s how:

1. Select text in the note with the desired formatting.
2. Click or tap on the Aa icon to view font options. The currently applied style will be highlighted in the dropdown menu.
3. Hover over the style you want to update and select Save as new default style. This sets the current selection formatting as your new default font style.

Important: These settings do not affect notes you’ve already created, i.e., are not retroactive. They only apply to new notes you create after the change, while existing notes will retain their original formatting. 

Tip: If you want an existing note to match your current defaults, open that note and manually reset each text style by clicking Reset to default (only visible if the text is different from your current defaults).

Update to match selection

This feature lets you update a text style just inside a single note, based on a specific piece of selected text.

How it works

1. Select a portion of the text with the desired formatting.
2. Click the Aa icon, hover over the style name (e.g. Normal text), and choose Update to match selection. This overrides the current settings for that style with the formatting of your selected text.
3. To revert to the default formatting used when the note was created, open the Aa menu again, hover over the style, and select Reset to default.

Important:

• This change is retroactive within that note: all other text in the note using that style will immediately update to match the new formatting.
• This does not affect your global default font settings and will not impact other notes.

Updated May 22, 2025 07:23