[GNC] Ways to make the journal more legible. Windows 11, GnuCash version 5.14, build 5.14+(2025-12-20)

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 23, 2026, at 10:35, Fred Bone <Fred at mandfb.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 22 January 2026 at 17:16, roger at olivermx.net said:
> 
> [...]
>> I had my hard drive replaced so had to reinstall everything. I did find
>> the file in users/roger/.gnucash/gtk-3.0. Not exactly the path I was
>> looking for but I found it. The text was the following:
>> 
>> * {
>> font: 15px consolas, sans-serif;
>> }
>> 
>> If I understand correctly, the font is set to 15 points. I could raise it
>> to 16 and see how it looks. How high could I go? Is there a way to bold
>> the font? I looked through the guide and did not find these instructions.
>> Also looked for the same in the Wiki, same. The old man is near blind and
>> not so programing gifted.
> 
> Pixels, not points.
> 
> I doubt if there's an upper limit, but you might find 15000px too large. 
> As for bolding, adding "bold" (without the quotes) could be worth a try. 
> (It would need to be before the list of fontnames).
> 
> This is CSS. There are numerous resources online explaining the syntax.
> https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font.php
> is a good source.

The GnuCash GUI is CSS-light, see https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/css-properties.html. Reports are html so you have the full range of CSS to play with using the Experimental CSS Stylesheet.

Regards,
John Ralls