Let me be quite frank here. The Marker Felt font is an eyesore, just like its ugly cousin Comic Sans. Apple has chosen to use Marker Felt for the Notes application, both in OS X and on the iPhone OS. While I understand the initial intent of using the font for the Notes application, they would like to make the content to appear as if it was handwritten. While this is a nice gesture, I often find it rather annoying. I would like to be able to change the fonts to fit my liking. I am sure there are other people out there that feel the same way. I don’t feel like jailbreaking my device either. So what’s a guy to do?
Simple, turn on the international keyboard. I found this little feature that could possibly be a little bug in the Notes application. What does this all mean? Let me walk you through it.
This is what Marker Felt looks like in the Notes application.
While it’s not terrible, it can be an eyesore at times. Now I’ll demonstrate how to change the Marker Felt.
Go into your settings.
Go into the general tab.
Now go down to the keyboards tab.
Keyboard panel view. From here select the international keyboard tab, then scroll all the way down to the Chinese (Simplified) tab. Then you’ll want to select the Pinyin option and turn the slider to “ON”.
Once you have selected the keyboard option, you can now hit the home button to return to your home screen. Now you can open the Notes application. If you begin to type, you’ll notice nothing has changed, except there is a new icon on your keyboard. What you need to do now is, start typing. Hit the “globe” icon on the keyboard, choose any character and press it. Now delete that character you just made. Voila! Your text has suddenly become readable. See pictures below
New international icon on the keyboard.
Globe icon has been selected. As you can see the bottom keys have changed. Once you press any letter the other language will pop up.
Once any letter is pressed it will change the Marker Felt font. You can delete the letter you just created and then go back to using your native keyboard by pressing on the globe icon again.
There you go. This isn’t permanent, any time you create a new note you’ll have to do the last steps in order to get the font from being Marker Felt. This isn’t a big hassle really. I don’t know why they choose not to allow you to change the type for the application. I hope this helps anyone out there that doesn’t want to jailbreak their device.
Maybe we’ll get the ability to change the font in a future update. Let’s hope.
