# Fonts and Colors

You can fine-tune how text is displayed in Web pages by choosing your own fonts and colors.

## My fonts and colors

You can assign a new font, style, size, and color to most common HTML elements:

- Select an element
- Click
- Set new values from the menu

If text appears too small on certain pages, increase the minimum font size to ensure readability.

You can set a default background color for pages that do not set one explicitly.

Note: To use your choices for fonts, colors, and link style, you must either switch to user mode, or enable your choices (override) in author mode from Page style in Preferences.

## Link style

Click to fine-tune the visual appearance of links in Web pages. From the "Link style" dialog you can also set how much time should pass before a visited link is considered unvisited.

Tip: Press `Ctrl` + `G` to switch between author mode and user mode.

## International fonts

If international characters appear incorrectly on a Web page, try changing the font used for the respective language. You may have to install fonts that are missing on your system.

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