Ship Atlassian with a more readable default font (and not Arial)

Christian Helmbold

I don't know where to make this suggestion, so I try it here ... I want to suggest that Atlassian ship Confluence with a more readable font than Arial. I've just spend several days reading the customer's confluence and got tired of reading Arial. I suggest to make Source Sans Pro the new default font. It is not only more readable on different kinds of monitors but looks better, too. Open Sans is another good font.

For other users suffering from Arial: there is a nice Plug-in for Firefox and Chrome called "Stylish" that makes overrding CSS per site easy.

Thomas Kreft

You can use a custom stylesheet to accomplish this within Confluence, either within a space (recommended for testing purposes) or globally.

As a space administrator, e.g. in your personal space, go to Space tools -> Look and Feel, Stylesheet, and Edit the Space Stylesheet as follows:

// use !important to override batch.css

body {
  font-family: Calibri, Arial, sans-serif !important;
  font-size: 14px !important;
}
.wiki-content,
.wiki-content p,
.wiki-content table,
.wiki-content tr,
.wiki-content td,
.wiki-content th,
.wiki-content ol,
.wiki-content ul,
.wiki-content li {
  font-family: Calibri, Arial, sans-serif !important;
  font-size: 14px !important;
}

Change the font family and font size to your liking.

Once you're satisfied, you can apply this globally (in General configuration -> style sheet).

Works great for us, but I agree there should be a better, standard way to configure the used fonts.