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Change font family for all text layers in Sketch
// Change font (ctrl a)
var doc = context.document,
selection = context.selection,
font_name = [doc askForUserInput:"Font name:" initialValue:"Arial"];
function check_layer(layer){
log(layer)
var className = layer.className()
log("Checking layer " + layer + " of klass: " + className)
if (className == "MSTextLayer") {
log("Found text layer!")
layer.setFontPostscriptName(font_name);
}
if (className == "MSArtboardGroup" || className == "MSLayerGroup"){
var sublayers = [layer layers];
log("This is a group/artboard/page with " + [sublayers length] + " sublayers")
for(var i=0; i < [sublayers length]; i++) {
var sublayer = sublayers.objectAtIndex(i);
check_layer(sublayer);
}
}
}
log("################################################################")
// Use selection, if any
if(selection && [selection length]){
for (var i = 0; i < [selection length]; i++) {
check_layer(selection[i]);
}
} else {
// Otherwise, loop trough pages, artboards & layers
var pages = [doc pages];
for (var i = 0; i < [pages length]; i++) {
var current_page = pages[i];
if ([[current_page artboards] length]) {
log("Traversing artboards")
for (var i = 0; i < [[current_page artboards] length]; i++) {
var artboard = [current_page artboards][i]
check_layer(artboard)
}
} else {
log("Page has no artboards")
check_layer(current_page)
}
}
}
@brianlovin
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Getting the same error as KingWu:

ReferenceError: Can't find variable: doc

@Youhan
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Youhan commented Dec 16, 2015

This helped me, thanks

here is my very simplified edition to replace a font with another one

function check_layer(layer) 
{

  switch ([layer class]) 
  {
    case MSTextLayer:

      var layer_font = [layer fontPostscriptName]

      if ( layer_font == ".AppleSystemUIFont" ) {

        layer.setFontPostscriptName("Play-Bold");

      }

      break;
  }
}


var doc = context.document;

// loop through layers on current page
var page = [doc currentPage]
var layers = [page children]

for (var i = 0; i < [layers count]; i++) {
  check_layer(layers[i])
}

@monkikkichi
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Would be nice if later can have some sort of font mapping (i.e. change specific font A to font B & font C to font D at the same time), thanks for the work though!

@idream85
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idream85 commented May 8, 2016

This is really cool man, many thanks!

@Digitalondon
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Can you provide some instruction on exactly what I need to paste into Custom Plugin please and how to change to desired font.

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ghost commented Dec 8, 2021

@Youhan Thank you buddy it helped me out and worked perfectly :)

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