The next time you open a new document in Pages, this font will be the default. Press X in the upper left-hand corner to exit Preferences. You should now see your preferred default font listed under the (now) checked box.
Select your preferred font and font size and then press OK. Click on the box.Īnother menu will pop up with options for the Font Name and Font Size. Not far from the top, you’ll see a box for Default Font that should be unchecked. (You can jump immediately to this step by pressing Command-comma.) How to change the default font for Pages on Mac Here’s how to make them on both your Mac and your iPhone. If you always want a Pages document with your font of choice ready to go, you’ll have to make a couple of changes that aren’t very obvious. Open another document, though, and you’ll be back to Helvetica. The default font for body text in Apple’s Pages word processing app is 11-point Helvetica Neue, but you can easily change it to something more interesting through the Format panel that’s usually visible to the right of your document.
