I recently upgraded to the latest Steam beta, and discovered that Valve increased the size of the font in the chat windows. Opinions of the font change vary, but I personally can’t stand it.
- The old look.
- The new look.
Here’s how to fix it (discovered in the steam forums).
Go into your steam directory, and open
resource/styles/steam.styles
The key here to find the sections that pertain to chat windows, and change their font-size parameters to 14 (if you want the original steam font size). After making the changes, restart Steam and you’ll be good to go.
friends_chat_text { textcolor="text" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" SelectedBgColor="focus" font-size=14 } friends_chat_text_self { textcolor="ChatOwnTextColor" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" font-size=14 } friends_chat_history { textcolor="ChatDialog.HistoryColor" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" font-size=14 } friends_chat_event { textcolor="Text" font-size=14 selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" } friends_chat_bright_event { textcolor="text" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" font-size=14 font-weight=1000 } friends_chat_url { textcolor="text" SelectedBgColor="focus" font-style=underline font-size=14 selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" } friends_chat_name_ingame { textcolor="Friends.InGameColor" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" font-size=14 } friends_chat_self { textcolor="Friends.OnlineColor" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" font-size=14 } friends_chat_name { textcolor="Friends.OnlineColor" selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" font-size=14 } friends_chat_accountid { selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected" selectedbgcolor="focus" textcolor="text" font-size=14 } friends_chat_securitylink { textcolor="text" bgcolor="none" font-family=basefont font-size=14 font-weight=400 font-style=underline selectedtextcolor="TextSelected" selectedbgcolor="Focus" }
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Thanks!
Happy to help :)