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How to Change Appearance of Books in iBooks App

By SK 14 comments Last updated January 2, 2023

You can perform a basic modification to the appearance of books to make your reading experience more comfortable for you. iBooks allow you to adjust the font size and fonts. You can choose from five included fonts. But, as of now, you cannot install custom fonts. Included fonts are:

  • Athelas,
  • Charter,
  • Georgia,
  • Iowan,
  • Palatino,
  • Seravek and
  • Times New Roman.

iBooks fonts

You can also select from multiple color schemes: Normal, Sepia and Night. You can also tap General > Accessibility and toggle Invert Colors on/off; this will inverse the colors, making everything white on a black background (and vice versa when changed back).

ibooks colors

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Sudz specializes in covering all things macOS, having reviewed dozens of OS X and macOS developments over the years.

In a former life, Sudz worked helping Fortune 100 companies with their technology and business transformation aspirations.

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  1. Helly Kaye says

    June 14, 2017 at 8:06 PM

    why is it that i don’t see any color or font changing in my ibooks

    Reply
  2. Anna Marie says

    March 5, 2017 at 1:02 PM

    I too prefer a double column format like on my kindle app. Please fix this quirk in iBooks.

    Reply
  3. Yvette says

    February 8, 2017 at 10:47 PM

    Thanks Liz. No wonder I was having no luck finding similar complaints online.
    Yvette

    Reply
    • SK says

      February 10, 2017 at 10:48 AM

      Hi Yvette,

      We’re still looking into this particular issue with iOS 10.2.1. In the meantime, see if any of the tips mentioned in our article on iBooks problems, just published today help out.

      The hunt for an answer to this issue is on-going!

      Cheers,

      Liz

      Reply
  4. Yvette Hunt says

    February 8, 2017 at 8:13 PM

    My mother’s iBooks keeps making parts of her page disappear. Sometimes if she goes out and goes back in it rights itself, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes turning the iPad off and back on again works, sometimes it doesn’t.
    Is there a fix? It’s driving her nuts.
    I haven’t seen anything about this glitch elsewhere, and fiddling with fonts and size hasn’t created a long term solution.

    Reply
    • SK says

      February 8, 2017 at 8:45 PM

      Yvette,

      We haven’t heard of this particular issue before. We’ll look into it and see if there’s something we can offer for assistance. I’m sorry your mother is having to deal with this issue. That certainly makes reading tough!

      Cheers,

      Liz

      Reply
  5. Trish says

    November 3, 2016 at 10:26 PM

    I’m not happy with the new format in iBooks. I’d like to have the double page format in landscape back! I’ve been reading books in Ibooks for over 5 years and I read a lot! It should look like a book when you read not a word document. Please change it back!

    Reply
  6. mad says

    September 28, 2016 at 9:48 AM

    i have ibooks 4.9.1 on my ipad 4. i would like to have the double column format back. please.

    Reply
  7. Kristilly says

    September 3, 2016 at 10:12 PM

    I am trying to get my ibook to let me use different fonts and colors but it wont give me the option. I open the Aa thing but it only gives me the brightness lever and the size of text options. why wont the other features appear?

    Reply
  8. Anita says

    May 8, 2016 at 3:48 AM

    I have verre bad eyes and thats wy i read with iBooks, big text, but i can’t change collor i online have wite On black, black On wite of sepia but in THE evening is iT to strong. IT would-be nicer of i also van change THE collor for example Orange On black or black On Orange.

    Reply
  9. Pat Marsden says

    December 21, 2015 at 6:19 AM

    Has something been changed in IBooks? Am finding it almost impossible to read books because they only offer scrolling of a two column page. As I am partially sighted I need to increase the size of the font but because I am also a very fast reader using ‘scatter vision’ I.e. Taking in the whole page at once, not reading word by word or line by line neither the two column set up or the scrolling version works for me. Why on earth can’t you just have a single column page? This is really annoying and means I won’t be using iBooks for my online reading experience.

    Reply
  10. Cheryl says

    September 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM

    On my iBook app it all of a sudden won’t do search, top charts. How do I get these back?

    Reply
  11. Karen says

    December 14, 2014 at 8:57 PM

    When I put iBook on the lowest dim to read at night there is a line 2/3 across the books with 1/3 being brighter. Can this be fixed please.

    Reply
    • Karen says

      December 14, 2014 at 11:59 PM

      I have already been to the Apple Store 3 months ago regarding this

      Reply

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