line- and paragraph-level font control

Sudowrite currently applies one font across the whole document. I'd like to be able to set a different font on individual lines or paragraphs.

The use case is multi-voice interiority. My protagonist shares her head with several spirits, and all of them speak to her without quotation marks — naked dialogue, no speech tags. That's a deliberate choice: tags would slow the exchanges down and flatten the immediacy, which is the whole point of the technique. But it means that on the page, her own thoughts and three or four separate spirit voices are typographically identical. The reader has nothing to hold onto.

Italics can only do so much here. They mark interiority in general; they can't distinguish one interior voice from another. A per-line font assignment would let each voice have a stable visual identity that the reader learns within a page or two and then reads without conscious effort — the same way a script distinguishes speakers, but without the intrusion of a tag.

This isn't a niche problem. Any book with an internal chorus, a possessed narrator, a hive mind, an AI in someone's ear, or a split personality runs into it. Right now the workaround is drafting elsewhere and hand-formatting after export, which means the manuscript in Sudowrite never reflects the manuscript I'm actually writing — and the AI tools can't see the distinction either.

What would cover it:

  • Assign a font to a selected line or paragraph

  • Save a handful of named voice fonts to reuse across a project

  • Have the assignment survive export to DOCX

Character-level control would be a bonus, but line and paragraph would solve the problem as I have it.

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Status

Proposed

Board

💡 Feature Request

Tags

Web app

Date

About 20 hours ago

Author

Tyler “heefy” Heefy

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