CKEditor

the answer is inside the following API documentation
http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.font_style

try this....

config.font_defaultLabel = 'Arial';
config.fontSize_defaultLabel = '12px';

You're right, I tried it myself and it didn't work for me. Not sure why, maybe someone else knows...I even found the following post with the same issue:
URL
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16251

Have you tried modifying the font styles in the contents.css file? Sometimes CSS change are stickier than you would think, try Shift+Refresh. Sometimes you even have to do that a couple of times.

Adding a contents.css did the trick for setting the default font and size:

body {
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 12px;
}

But setting

config.font_defaultLabel = 'Arial';
config.fontSize_defaultLabel = '12px';   

In the config.js file did nothing. The font and size drop-downs do not have any values selected.

Any ideas, anyone?

But setting

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    config.font_defaultLabel = 'Arial';
    config.fontSize_defaultLabel = '12px';   

Sounds like a bug to me. I would check if this issue hasn't been logged already and if not, log a point.

paulwesson wrote:Adding a contents.css did the trick for setting the default font and size:

body {
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 12px;
}

This sounds like what I need to simply change the font used in the editor to Arial by default. Where is this contents.css file?

Me too having this problem I tried to change every bit of css code trying to change the default font but I couldn't .. I see somebody solve this dilemma and change it by editing (contents.css) but I can't find this file. Where it is?! .. I tried to make it but nothing happen.

Solution:
It took me quite a while to figure this out.
Let us say you want to use Verdana as the default font. Here is what you can do:

1. Open contents.css and change the font tag:
font-family: Verdana;

2. In the application/page where the output will be published, add this style:
<style>
.entry-content {font-family: Tahoma;}
</style>

That's it! Now you have change the default font successfully. This works for the font size as well. I just finished developing this question2answer site, بنات بنات, which utilizes CKEditor and this tiny issue kept me awake for two days!

Hi there,

This is working great in IE but not in Firefox.

Can we set a pre-defined font and font size for Firefox browser?

Please advise.

Thanks, Kris

Yes but if your font family is a variable, how do you do ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16339258/ckeditor-4-how-to-set-default-font