How to Change Toolbar Fonts in Windows Aero?

Hi Everyone,

Because of failing eyesight, I work best in Windows Aero if I can change all the display fonts from Segoe UI to Segoe UI Semibold. I can do this everywhere except for the Toolbar text shown in the attached screen shot. In the lower left are my pop-up menus, created from Toolbars by "squashing" them down to single-letter titles (R,A,L,C,E,F,M); and right below the Windows Explorer menu bar is another Toolbar it would be nice to display with Segoe UI Semibold entries.

I would be pleased to pay a reasonable development fee to anyone who cares to provide these Toolbar modification.

Kind Regards,
RetiredEngineer

Hi Derek,

I am most grateful for your attention to my reading problems. However, using icons alone looks to be too large a task at this point.

I should point out here that one of your colleagues, who understands how to create new Themes using Windows Style Builder, has offered to post a new Segoe UI Semibold Toolbar font add-in. Worth watching for, at least for me.

Kind Regards,
RetiredEngineer

I will see what I can do and get back here in a day or 2.

Jerry

I think I got it for you.

You will need to do 1 of these 2 ways of Enabling custom themes for it to work.
Enabling Custom Themes - Windows 7
Or
Theme - How to Apply Custom Themes

Download and extract the zip folder at the bottom of this post to your Desktop.

Put both the SemiBold theme folder and the SemiBold.theme file in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes


It will show up under Installed Themes as SemiBold in Personalization.


Let me know if it's OK.

Jerry

Thank-you, Jerry, for the Segoe UI Semibold fix to Toolbar fonts in W7. My Toolbars now work as I need them to, and I can now read their text for extended periods without eyestrain.

Well done!

Kind regards,
RetiredEngineer

RetiredEngineer said:

Thank-you, Jerry, for the Segoe UI Semibold fix to Toolbar fonts in W7.

Now that I've used your Semibold font fix for W7 Aero, I realize that you went well beyond the call of duty. Not only do all Toolbars display in Semibold, but every other user of this font in the System also displays in Semibold. As a result, everything in my System is now easier to read and select.

All I have left to say at this point is ...Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you! In one fell swoop, you've given me many more years of useful eyesight. For me, this is truly a substantial value added.

May God bless you and keep you. I will be eternally grateful.

Jerry is an awesome guy as you have found out. Well done Jerry

A Guy

You're Welcome, glad I could help.

Thank you Bill!