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How to disable the new Twitter font

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If you're wondering how to disable the new Twitter font, you're non alone. The social network has now switched to its new "Chirp" font on its website and in its mobile app.

According to a Twitter blog mail service, "Chirp strikes the balance between messy and sharp to amplify the fun and irreverence of a Tweet, but can also acquit the weight of seriousness when needed."

That's all very well, and the new font does look more modernistic and, some might say, easier to read. However, non anybody likes change  — at least not at beginning — specially when it's foisted on them.

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Although there'southward not much you tin do to change the Chirp font in the Twitter app for Android and iOS (where it feels more at home), there is a workaround, shared by Twitter user Twilight Sparkle, that lets y'all restore the traditional font on the Twitter website.

Below, we'll explain how to get back the old Twitter font, until you're ready to switch to the new ane.

How to disable the new Twitter font

1. First, visit the Twitter website in your desktop web browser. It doesn't thing which page is displayed. Don't like that new font? Don't worry!

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two. You'll at present demand to open your browser'south "Programmer tools" Console console.

In Chrome, press Ctrl+Shift+J on a Windows PC or Cmd+Opt+J on a Mac.

In Firefox, printing Ctrl+Shift+Thou in Windows or Cmd+Opt+G in macOS.

In Microsoft Edge on a Windows PC, yous can either printing Ctrl+Shift+I or merely hitting F12 to open Developer Tools.

In Safari on a Mac, go to Preferences, click Advanced, then select "Testify Develop menu in card bar." Now printing Cmd+Opt+C.

3. When the "Developer tools" console opens in the right-hand side of your browser, click the Panel tab if information technology isn't already displayed.

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4. Re-create and paste the following code into the text entry field at the lesser of the Panel, where you encounter a right-pointing arrow and a flashing cursor:

certificate.cookie="ab_decider=responsive_web_chirp_font_enabled=false&responsive_web_nav_visual_refresh_enabled=false"

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5. Press Enter and refresh Twitter. Y'all tin can either do this by clicking the Refresh or Reload button on your browser's toolbar, or by pressing F5 on your Windows keyboard or Cmd+R on a Mac.

6. The Twitter font will now be changed from the new mode to the quondam 1.

Close the "Programmer tools" panel and enjoy Twitter similar you used to!

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How to re-enable the new Twitter font

If you change your listen and decide to give the new Twitter font a chance, you can go back to the futurity by disabling the sometime one. Hither's how.

1. Follow steps 1 to 3 in a higher place to open the "Programmer tools" Console panel in your browser, while viewing Twitter.

2. Copy and paste the following code into the Panel in the aforementioned place as earlier:

document.cookie="ab_decider=responsive_web_chirp_font_enabled=true&responsive_web_nav_visual_refresh_enabled=true"

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3. Printing Enter and refresh/reload the folio. The new Twitter font will now exist reapplied. We're sure you'll get used to it, and fifty-fifty learn to similar it!

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Robert Irvine is How-To Editor at Tom'south Guide. He has been writing tutorials about software, hardware, websites and other tech topics since the days of dial-upwards modems, and was previously the editor of Spider web User magazine. Robert enjoys cooking, and makes a mean sausage goulash, but is definitely non the celebrity chef of the same name.

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