# Changing font type and color

You can change your document's font type and color.

1. Choose Format > Font > Show Fonts.
2. Select the font and color of your choice using the Font panel.

- These changes apply only to the window currently active. To change the default font for all new documents, choose CotEditor > Preferences > Format. To change the default text color, choose CotEditor > Preferences > View.
- To change the colors for syntax coloring, choose CotEditor > Preferences > Syntax.

## See also

- View preferences
- Syntax preferences