Set your reading and writing fonts

Open Settings (⌘,) and set typography for Reading and Writing separately. For each, you pick a font, a text size, line spacing, and line width. Read in Serif, write in Mono. Present uses the reading font and scales it for the screen.

Reading and writing are different jobs, and the type that suits one rarely suits the other. A wide serif at a comfortable size is easy on the eyes for a long read. A fixed-width mono with tighter spacing keeps your source lined up while you write. So Unmarked gives you both, set independently, instead of one font for both modes.

Set your fonts

1. Open Settings with ⌘, (or Unmarked → Settings).
2. Go to the typography section.
3. Under Reading, choose a font, then set the text size, line spacing, and line width.
4. Under Writing, do the same. The Writing controls are separate from Reading, so set them however you like.

Changes apply live. Adjust the size, look at the document, nudge it again until it sits right.

The fonts

The three you'll reach for most are Apple's system faces:

• Sans is SF Pro. Clean and neutral, a good default for reading.
• Serif is New York. Built for body text, and the one most people land on for long reading.
• Mono is SF Mono. Fixed-width, so every character takes the same space. The natural pick for writing source.

There's more on the list too: Rounded, Avenir Next, Optima, Charter, and Iowan. Try a couple in Reading and keep the one your eyes prefer.

Size, spacing, and width

Each mode has three more controls beyond the font.

Text size is the obvious one. Line spacing sets the gap between lines, which matters more for reading comfort than people expect. Line width caps how far the text runs before it wraps, so a full-screen window doesn't stretch a paragraph into one long, hard-to-track line.

Set them per mode. A roomy size with generous spacing and a narrow width reads well for Reading. A tighter setup often works better for Writing, where you want more source on screen at once. Your call.

Note: Typography is for the screen, not the file. The font, size, and spacing you choose change how Unmarked displays your document. They don't write anything into the Markdown itself, so the file stays plain text and opens the same way in any other editor.

Present uses the reading font

Slides use your reading font and start at about two and a half times the reading size. Unmarked can shrink the type when a slide needs more room, down to a readable floor. Content beyond that scrolls instead of being cut off. The Present guide explains the full-screen behavior.

Exports keep their own style

Exports use a fixed, predictable style regardless of your editor typography. Whatever font and size you read or write in, a PDF, a Word file, or HTML comes out with Unmarked's export styling, not your screen settings. That's deliberate. A document you send should look the same to whoever opens it, no matter how you had the app set up while you wrote it.