Admin Custom Font
Admin Custom Font plugin allows you to replace default/factory font in WordPress Admin Dashboard with hundreds of different Google Fonts.
4.5(13 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 years agoAs of April 2026, Admin Custom Font is a WordPress font plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 22K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: Local Google Fonts.
4.5/513 reviews
1.0K+active installs
22K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Admin Custom Font plugin allows you to replace default/factory font in WordPress Admin Dashboard with hundreds of different Google Fonts.
Visit Admin Dashboard > Settings > Admin Font to customize font type and styles.
Why This Plugin?
In WordPress version 4.6 a new admin system font change was introduced, moving away from “traditional” Open-Sans font-face type
(introduced back in 3.8). This inspired us to create a simple & powerful Admin Custom Font plugin in order to restore the old look & feel without modifying core files.
Since plugin version 2.4.0 release, you can now choose from the complete list of all Google Fonts, override default font-size and font-weight styles!
Included most popular Google Font types (faces): OpenSans, DroidSans, PT Sans, Roboto, Exo,…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and useful!
by meksONE·2 years ago
A simple, one purpose plugin to refresh the admin interface of WordPress.
For those who gives 1 star, read better the description: I think that there’s too much people with functional illiteracy that urgently needs support (from a good psychiatrist)
- This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by meksONE.
Improved my Admin Dashboard
by Mr Tibbs·3 years ago
A few months ago, my Admin Dashboard appeared “wonky”. All the columns were compressed, and the font was changed.
I was not able to backtrack and try to discover what suddenly changed my Admin Dashboard, although I suspected it was a Gutenberg block.
This plugin has improved the appearance of my Admin Dashboard and I use the default Google Open Sans font.
Many thanks for your single purpose plugin; they usually serve the WP community much better than the more complicated, error-prone plugins.
Thank you!
by Nicole6870·3 years ago
From someone with bad astigmatism, many many thanks for this plugin!
Seems useless to me
by waypasthadenough·4 years ago
The only reason I installed this was to ‘MAYBE’ find a way to set a default font in twenty twelve classic editor, something that should be so SIMPLE AND BASIC so that I don’t have to change it with EVERY DAMN PARAGRAPH I WRITE!!!!
But I see no way to do that with this plugin so it’s useless to me. I tried to choose the font I usually use and it doesn’t show up in this plugin’s list.
When I tried to save what I did set it didn’t work.
Best plugin of its kind!
by kfloyde·5 years ago·1 reply
I use this on all my sites and it works great!
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.5
97.9%
v2.4
2.1%
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Changelog
Version 2.5.2 (02/02/22)
- Google Fonts List Update
- Minor cosmetic fix for update/moderation counter number notifications
- IMPORTANT: Please manually regenerate CSS files in plugin’s settings page and clear browser’s cache after installing this update!
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