I deleted the Segoe font a while back, because my sticky notes were hard to read with that font. My Sticky Notes worked with another font for a while, until the default font changed to a boxy-bold-pixel-like font, which is even more annoying than Segoe one.
Is there another way to customize the font of Sticky Notes? I tried pasting directly from Word, but the font isn't copied with the text.
Hack the registry
Windows uses Segoe Print font as default in the sticky note. With some modifications with that font, you can use other fonts as to change the default font in the Sticky Note.
1 Start
2 Run - type regedit
3 Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
4 On right pane Find "Segoe Print (TrueType)" and "Segoe Print Bold (TrueType)" - double click (don't forget to change both - one by one)
Optional - you can delete other Segoe fonts - select(one click), press Del, press Yes
5 Change the value(double click on font) to the file name of any other font that you wish to use that is already installed - for "times new roman" it should be times.ttf .
6 Restart the computer.
It works for me in Windows 10. Here are my steps:
There is an awesome third party workaround solution to customize the font for Sticky Notes and still be able to use stickies in Windows 10. It is called "Stickies" from Zhorn Software, which currently offers a choice of 14 different font styles and 5 font colors. This program is a free download.
