How to change the default font and size in Notes on El Capitan?

Solution 1:

And the keyboard's plists of PressAll also can no longer be modified to add the new accents.

Tip: You do not need to modify the default font and size in Notes.

To change the font, you can select all or one sentence and press Cmd + T.

To change the font size, you can press Cmd, Shift and + at the same time to increase or Cmd + - to decrease the size.

Another tip: If you want to use the user font in Notes in OS X, please, install and use AnyFont in iOS to install your favourite font in iOS.

Solution 2:

Here's what worked for me on El Capitan:

1.Disable System Integrity Protection

• Restart your mac
• Press and hold CMD+R to boot in recovery
• In the menu bar select utilities>terminal
• Type csrutil disable
• Reboot

2.Change font size:

• Fire up the terminal and type in

  cd /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources

• Then

  sudo nano pad.css

• In the editor replace the @[FONT-SIZE] with your font size.

• control+X and then select Y and then return.

Start your notes app and you should see the difference :)

[EDIT]

To switch on (or re-activate) SIP, repeat the steps at '1' above. However, instead of using csrutil disable in Terminal, use csrutil enable.

Solution 3:

Workaround: Pushing Cmd-+ increments the font size by one point each time.

The default body font size is 12 point. So, if you want to get your notes to be 16 point, just always press Cmd-+ four times after starting a new note.

(and go to Format menu, New Notes Start With, and make sure Body is checked)