Teachers need to be able to communicate engagement through font choice as we know how to engage our students, and it is not the font that Canvas has set as global right now.
Hello @msimmonsrosen,
I love a good font myself, but as a global platform that serves users of many ages, there are reasons for the default font in Canvas. Accessibility and readability are important considerations given the wide variety of devices used to access Canvas. The Lato font used as the default will automatically zoom and scale dynamically when browser windows are resized. I really struggled with the font a few years ago when we first began to use Canvas, but the more I learned about accessibility and access for some of our students, the more I learned how important the choices made when designing Canvas were. This article in the community has some information related to this if you're interested. I know accessibility and course design are a big topic in our district-wide PD for the coming year as we work to meet the federal ADA compliance requirements. We're a smaller entity so we have until April 2028.
If you teach younger students, there is the Canvas for Elementary interface that can be turned on by your Canvas admin and it has a more user-friendly font for elementary aged students. We use that for our K-5 buildings.
—Dianna
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