Text formatting in profile layout (colored fonts, bold, italic etc.)

[Lunacinda]

I wish we had more options to personalize our profiles. Some text formatting at the very least would be lovely, such as colors, bold and italic fonts, perhaps even different font types and sizes.

Also maybe expand our link slots to more than 3?

Images in profile is probably wishful thinking since people will just porn it up and ruin it in no time.

[The Goat Fräulein]

It feels as if the profiles have been left behind, while the rest of the Steam community has become more like a social-networking site.

I remain confident that Steam will sort it out somehow and hopefully not ruin it á la Facebook-Timeline.

[Felix]

Personally, I'm pretty happy with the formatting options we currently have for the profiles.

In my personal opinion, bold and italics would be alright but colours, fontfaces and different sizes? Argh! It'd be a mess. I already can't stand profiles covered with ASCII art.

Also, I remember a comment from Mike Blaszczak a while ago on the old forums about links. It was along the lines of "What could you possibly need more than three links for?", and I have to agree. Do you feel the need to link to that many other places...?

[Felix]

Messaggio originale di (WOLVES)MRS.ALPHA WOLF(2 DAYS):

I would like changing colors for text for group announcements. But make it where we can't make the color gray or blue (Since thats the new color for groups)

Implying bright green, vibrant reds and unfitting purples are any better.
We don't need the ability to change text colour. It'd just look horrible and be abused.

[Felix]

Messaggio originale di (WOLVES)MRS.ALPHA WOLF(2 DAYS):

I like yellow so if they ever added this feature i would make all my posts yellow :P No other color I really do hope they add this

But why?! It wouldn't fit and would look really, really horrible! Obviously, that's an opinion, but I'm pretty sure it's an opinion that would be shared with many.

Mocked it up. Yeah, looks kinda urgh: http://i.imgur.com/MaTYZ.png

[Tito Shivan]

I like the sobriety of the Steam profiles.
The less we make it look like Myspace, the better.

[allan-snackbar]

Better formatting would be brilliant, maybe add HTML5 support or way to animate content. Also steam should be better optimized, it sort of is not smooth.

[Holy Wildfire]

Would be nice to just have a lighter colour for profiles/announcements... oh well so much for that. lol wrap it all in h1... Fixed

[Lofty Heights]

Hello Steam users,

Apolgies for dredging up such an old post but I wanted to search for the topic I was interested in before making a new thread and so I found it. I just wanted to pledge my support for this suggestion as I am a major fan of customisation: profiles, fonts, gear, looks, etc.

One of my favourite fonts to make posts in other social forums is Georgia in italics, it's easy to read and sleek-looking and it's simple and not too flowery and annoying like other fonts such as Comic Sans or the like. At any rate, I'm glad I found a thread for this, I hope that, at some point, the Steam devs will take a look at this and think it over.

Lofty Heights