> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pensiv.so/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Formatting and typography

> How to change font, font size, line spacing, and alignment from the document toolbar, and how far a formatting change reaches.

Open a document and a row of toolbar sits above the body. From the left: Undo and Redo, font, font size, line spacing, alignment, then Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, and Underline.

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<p className="app-caption">The formatting toolbar above the document. Font, font size, and line spacing are gathered on the left.</p>

1. Font, font size, line spacing. What you pick here reaches the body straight away.
2. Zoom. It enlarges the screen without changing the font size — covered separately in [Zooming in and out](/en/writing/zoom).
3. Customize Toolbar. Choose which buttons sit on the toolbar — see [Customizing the toolbar](/en/writing/toolbar).

## First, how far formatting reaches

The reach of font and font size depends on what you had selected when you picked them.

* **With only the cursor placed**, it reaches the whole paragraph. It is stored as a property of the paragraph itself, so the next paragraph you make with Enter inherits the same value. This is the convenient way to write a whole chapter in one serif face.
* **With the whole paragraph selected**, it likewise becomes a paragraph property. Fonts set on parts inside it are wiped. Use this to tidy up mixed formatting.
* **With only part of a sentence selected**, it reaches that range alone and leaves the rest of the paragraph untouched.

Pick the default font again from the list and the setting is released, returning to the editor default.

## Font and font size

The font list starts with the default font at the top, with the rest below a divider. Korean faces worth using on a manuscript are in there — Nanum Myeongjo, Gowun Batang, HCRBatang, RIDIBatang. Fonts you brought in yourself are grouped separately at the bottom. You bring them in with **Import Font** on the **Fonts** tab in settings. A manuscript that arrives carrying a font not on the list shows **Unknown**.

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<p className="app-caption">The font list. The default font at the top, the rest below the divider.</p>

For font size, type a number in and press Enter, or press the arrow beside it and pick from the values prepared between 8pt and 72pt. The unit is pt, clipped to between 1 and 999.

## Line spacing and alignment

Press the line spacing button and a slider appears that moves from 1.0 to 3.0 in steps of 0.1. It applies to the selected paragraphs and headings the moment you let go.

Alignment has four options — Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, and Justify — and in that order they are Cmd(Ctrl)+Alt+L, E, R, and J. Pressing them while an IME is composing does not break the composition. Bold is Cmd(Ctrl)+B, italic +I, underline +U, and strikethrough +Shift+S.

## Defaults are set in settings

Set **Default Font**, **Default Font Size**, **Default Alignment**, **Default Line Height**, and **Paragraph Spacing** on the **Editor** tab in settings and new writing starts at those values. To keep one document different, open the gear at the right of the toolbar, **Current File Settings**.