Bug 166878 - Use a more appealing font for the welcome dialog
Summary: Use a more appealing font for the welcome dialog
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166880
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: First_Launch_Welcome
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Reported: 2025-06-06 10:32 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2025-06-06 13:42 UTC (History)
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Description Telesto 2025-06-06 10:32:35 UTC 
Description:
Use a more appealing font for the welcome dialog

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer for the first time. The Welcome screen appears: attachment 200823 [details] 

Actual Results:
You're running LibreOfficeDev for the first time etc. is written in not so appealing font. It's not a warm welcome

Expected Results:
I'm no font specialist, however I'm not big fan of the current font. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 17e8dbead42e2d4b55815b1b7b2846b03d62a15d
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2025-06-06 10:37:47 UTC 
Slightly out of scope here. I'm also not big fan of the sentences in the welcome screen ending with a 'dot'. Similar to bug 166588, but that one is about the Window Title. It doesn't feel right somehow.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2025-06-06 10:52:37 UTC 
It's the default font with a size of 24px in bold and dark.

-1 to any other font (which might not be available on any OS/DE)
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-06-06 10:58:51 UTC 
I'm not sure that it's the font itself, rather, the combined effect of the graphic.
Comment 4 Telesto 2025-06-06 13:42:14 UTC 
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> I'm not sure that it's the font itself, rather, the combined effect of the
> graphic.

Your bug delineates my feeling about the appeal of the Welcome dialog pretty well. I assumed it to be the font, but it might not be the case.

Marking this one a duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166880 ***