# How to change the font of GtkLabel?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-change-the-font-of-gtklabel/20794
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-change-the-font-of-gtklabel/20794 "2019-02-14T17:11:56Z")
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### Author: ![Carsten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carsten](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Carsten)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-change-the-font-of-gtklabel/20794/1 "2019-02-14T17:11:56Z")

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How to change the font of GtkLabel? In particular I’m looking for greek characters.

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### Author: ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-change-the-font-of-gtklabel/20794/2 "2019-02-15T06:01:56Z")

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i cannot test this right now, but in theory GtkLabel should be displaying Unicode i.e. if your current font contains greek characters, they should be displayed.

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### Author: ![Carsten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carsten](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Carsten)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-change-the-font-of-gtklabel/20794/3 "2019-02-15T10:41:50Z")

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Thank you for the prompt answer. To enter e.g. small lambda use **Ctrl+Shift+U** then 03bb.