How do I change the typeface / font when reading a news item?

[debajit]

The font looks like the default (proportional) sans-serif font (like Helvetica) but I can't figure out how to set it. Can you tell me what this face is called, so that I can customize it?

[skeeto]

You could hook elfeed-show-mode (elfeed-show-mode-hook) to set the face you like. (add-hook 'elfeed-show-mode-hook (lambda () (buffer-face-set 'variable-pitch))) That's really all there is to it. However, Emacs cannot correctly wrap paragraphs with a variable width font, so alignment and wrapping may look off.

[mnp]

Yeah, this was my question too. People are going to be fussy about reading walls of text and want easy access to appearance. I read code for a while before coming here. Settings in this region should be easy to find at least: perhaps some defconst's for body and title faces? Or maybe an FAQ in the GH wiki?

[mnp]

I wanted to add a note for others how I customized my show buffer. The elfeed-show-mode-hook above does work for buffer variable settings, but I also wanted some behavior, word wrap in my case. I used elfeed-show-entry-switch as a hook. I guess this could have been a defadvice.

(setq elfeed-show-mode-hook
      (lambda ()
	(set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch (selected-frame) :font (font-spec :family "Century Schoolbook" :size 12))
	(setq fill-column 120)
	(setq elfeed-show-entry-switch #'my-show-elfeed)))

(defun my-show-elfeed (buffer)
  (with-current-buffer buffer
    (setq buffer-read-only nil)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (re-search-forward "\n\n")
    (fill-individual-paragraphs (point) (point-max))
    (setq buffer-read-only t))
  (switch-to-buffer buffer))

[powellc]

@mnp thanks so much for following up on your customization efforts. It might be nice to add this sort of code example to the docs so folks don't have to rifle through github issues with font issues to find this.