Plain text font

We usually don’t do polls on features but as fonts are, besides of readability, also a matter of taste I’d like to as which font you’d like to see for plain text files? In the list Courier is the only mono-spaced font as there are no other mono-spaced fonts preinstalled on iOS.

Why not use the users’ default setting in DEVONthink > Preferences > Plain Text Font. If the user has chosen a font that cannot be rendered in iOS, or has never synchronized with the desktop, then for consistency use the DEVONthink desktop default. I believe that is Lucida Grande.

I agree, use the user default and if not available then revert to Lucinda Grande

You could also include your own font to get what you want. There are some nice mono-spaced fonts available (I’m partial to Inconsolata) that also have free/public domain versions available for the Mac.

With the new-world sync, the user’s default font is not transported through the sync (as it’s not part of the database and so user-specific). What would happen if user A sets the font to Lucida Grande and user B to Courier and they all sync via the same sync store?

This would be confusing, too, to set a preference on the Mac. And on the device the Settings app is not able to set fonts, except for if we’d be using a list. But in my opinion this could easily become overkill.

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I’ve just checked and found out that my assumption that Lucida Grande would be available was premature. It is only there on the Mac. So I switch back to HelveticaNeue, which is the default font on iOS 4 and later.