How to Change Your Game's Font

Clockwork Mind · September 22, 2025

The vanilla game allows you to set the font of its text, using any font on your computer. But almost nobody knows this is possible, and even fewer know how.

0. The hardest part of this is actually finding another font that looks good and works well for the game. It's truly so much harder than you'd think. After dozens of hours of searching, the best I've found is Caudex Bold. (Honorable mention to Albertus Medium, which is amazing for everything except rendering the corrupted text in chats sent with low stability/during a storm.) Download the font, unzip and open the TTF file, and install it.

1. Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData and open clientsettings.json. (Make sure the game is not running while you edit it, or your changes won't save.)

2. Find the line with "defaultFontName" and edit the value to the name of your font and save the change. You can also change the "Decorative Font" on the next line, which is the text rendered on Menu buttons and lore discovery text, among other things.

3. Save the file, open the game, and the change should be made! Happy reading!

Here are some in-game examples of Caudex Bold (and Unifraktur Maguntia for Decorative Text).