change default font on Notes section?

Jan 10, 2020

April Drennan
By April Drennan

Hi. Is there a way to change the default font for the Notes tab of the player? If so, how. Thanks in advance!

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Lauren Connelly
3 months ago02/20/24 at 4:20 pm (UTC)

Hello all!

Good news! In Storyline 360 (Build 3.85.31840.0), you can now instantly update the formatting of all slide notes in your project.

From here, all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!

If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Support team in a support case. 

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Katie Riggio
over 4 years ago01/10/20 at 8:08 pm (UTC)

Greetings, April!

You can change the default font for the Notes tab in the Player. Here's how:

  1. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Player.
  2. When the player properties open, click Colors & Effects on the ribbon.
  3. Select your desired font for Player font:
  4. Click OK to save your changes.

I created this short recording in case you're also a visual learner. Let me know if these steps help you out!

Ville -
4 years ago02/26/20 at 2:11 pm (UTC)

You can try accomplishing this by overriding the font in CSS.

Option 1 - Modify published output, look for a file named output.min.css and add css like this, modifying font and other properties as you wish:

.note-title {
 font-family: 'Helvetica' !important;
 font-size: large !important;
}
.note-content p span {
 font-family: 'Helvetica' !important;
 font-size: small !important;
}

Option 2 -  Execute this javascript in your project somewhere (e.g., first slide), it will inject the style into the page when run. Perhaps easier to maintain than option 1.

var style = document.createElement('style');
style.textContent = `
 .note-title {
   font-family: 'Helvetica' !important;
   font-size: large !important;
 }
 .note-content p span {
   font-family: 'Helvetica' !important;
   font-size: small !important;
 }
`;
document.head.appendChild(style);

Notes:

  • If Articulate changes their html / class names output in the future, you'll need to examine the html and update the css above accordingly.
  • Above was tested for the 'classic' player, the class names might be different for the 'modern' player.
  • If you need to find the class names you can do so by
    • viewing the course in chrome/firefox/etc
    • opening the notes & right clicking the notes content in chrome/firefox/etc
    • selecting 'inspect element' -- basic html/css knowledge required
Leslie McKerchie
over 2 years ago12/22/21 at 2:11 pm (UTC)

Hi Kipp,

The Notes are treated as a separate and distinct element for each slide, but we have a feature request for a Notes Master/global formatting option.

I've added this conversation to our report. I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests, which may be helpful. 

Liz Victoria
2 years ago05/16/22 at 11:24 pm (UTC)

Another vote for making the default Notes font size globally adjustable, vs. slide-by-slide. The default size (9 pt) creates accessibility issues.

If allowing us to customize that setting globally is more of a long-term project for your engineers, perhaps a short-term enhancement would be to set the Notes default at 12 pt in the next update?

Thanks for keeping accessibility in mind -- it's much appreciated!

Marnie Vanderlaan
almost 2 years ago05/19/22 at 3:17 pm (UTC)

And another vote to make the Notes section default size 12 pts!! In Canada we will soon have a law to that requires all courses to be accessible.

Right now we make the Notes section visible and call it "Transcript" so learners can read along if they want to. I understand CC does that as well but this is a quick fix for our current courses. 

As a side comment - The Notes section (and other things) is so finicky, and when making changes manually it constantly crashes forcing me to save after every slide change... also a huge ongoing issue for years. Updates don't seem to fix the instability of Storyline. 

Thanks!

Rhonda Hansen
almost 2 years ago07/20/22 at 6:00 pm (UTC)

I would also like to request/vote for a feature that allows changing the default size and font for what appears under the "Notes" tab. 

I also vote for several other suggestions that recommend adjusting the default on your end to 12 in the next update until there are enough votes or you decide to take action on the many requests for this issue.

Thanks!!

Jon Brown
over 1 year ago10/26/22 at 5:05 pm (UTC)

This thread started 3 years ago with a user's request for help. The 'feature request' was brought into the conversation nearly a year ago. As of 6 days ago, no update to share. It seems like it's fallen into the abyss of 'feature requests' I've witnessed over the years. I've been an Articulate fan for years, but always disappointed when I see postings asking for changes and responses that thank us for the suggestions, tell us it's added to a feature request and then literally years later - nothing but something like 'it's still on our radar'. While I'm at it, when are you going to update the photos of the characters? The 80's is calling and it wants it style back - wide ties, pleated pants, hair styles and all. Sorry to be negative Articulate, like I said I've been a fan and user for years with Studio and Storyline - but stuff like this is just frustrating for those of us on the receiving end. ...or rather on the non-receiving end. My 2 cents (ok, maybe more than 2 cents)

JB

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