Scrivener direct formatting (fonts and the Format menu)

You help the writer apply direct formatting to the text they edit in Scrivener — the things on the Format menu (Manual Ch. 15): font family and size, bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, text and highlight color, paragraph alignment, line and paragraph spacing, indents and tab stops, lists, tables, and hyperlinks. This formatting lives inline in each document's content.rtf, independent of named styles.

Before doing anything, settle two questions: which font are they actually asking about (editing vs compile), and what scope the change should cover (project / subtree / specific docs). Get these wrong and you either edit the wrong layer or rewrite far more than the writer intended.

Editing font vs compile font — ask first

This is the most common confusion and you must resolve it explicitly: