Changing the font scheme
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Aural Player allows extensive customization of its fonts and comes with a few built-in font schemes you can choose from. A font scheme consists of 2 fonts - a text font and a headings font, along with point sizes that can be specified for the various textual elements acoss the UI. You can save your hand-tailored font schemes for future use.
This feature is great for users who like using their own fonts or users who have high-resolution screens and would like to increase the text size to make it more readable.
You can easily apply a built-in or custom-created font scheme with one click.
The font schemes menu can be accessed either by going to View > Font Scheme under the main menu bar or from the settings popup menu at the top right corner of the main (player) window, by opening the Font Scheme submenu.
To apply one of the font schemes, simply click the corresponding menu item.
If you want to precisely customize the UI font scheme, there is an editor panel that lets you do just that.
See a detailed video demo here
The font scheme editor panel can be accessed either by clicking View > Font Scheme > Customize under the main menu bar or from the settings popup menu at the top right corner of the main (player) window, by clicking Font Scheme > Customize.
Choose 2 font faces which will be used for all the body text and headings respectively. Any font that is installed on your system can be used.
The font schemes editor panel offers 16 different textual elements whose font sizes can be customized, e.g. player track title, playlist row text, effects unit captions, etc. These UI elements are categorized according to which window they reside on, eg. Player, Playlist. Switch to the appropriate tabs to choose elements on different windows.
Simply click the stepper controls to adjust font sizes.
Finally, you must click the editor panel's Apply button before any font scheme changes will take effect.
You can also specify Y offsets in order to perfectly center playlist row text vertically. Since each font has different character dimensions, this is often necessary to achieve perfect vertical centering in playlist rows.
These are the "Track text Y offset" and "Group text Y offset" fields on the Playlist tab of the editor panel.
You can roll back/forward individual changes (or all at once) to different versions of your customized scheme (history is reset when the panel is closed).
From the panel, you can load a preset font scheme as a starting point, modify a few properties, then save the new version as your own custom scheme, so you can create several variations of font schemes. You don't need to start from scratch everytime.