Menus and fonts on the 27" are SO SMALL!!

At first I had the same problem. How long has she used the 27" iMac? It took me around 3 to 4 days to get fully used to it and now whenever I look at my MacBook Pro I wonder why it looks so big and fuzzy.

Otherwise so far only changing the screen resolution and live with some kind of fuzziness is the only solution that I can see.

volker

I use Command-+ every time I use Safari and Mail. It makes reading more comfortable for me. Anyone knows a way to set up Safari permanently?

in its advanced settings you can set to not use fonts smaller than xx

alternatevly you can supply your custom css style sheet with the definition of example of

p {font-size: 18px;}

volker

This article from 2007 may be of interest:

_The case of the missing resolution independence_

Also the +"Resolution Independence"+ section in this Apple doc:

_Leopard Technology Overview_

Give Apple feedback! Tell them we need to be able to scale the user text system-wide. I love my 27" iMac but the tiny text is driving me nuts. Forget using iWork...

I am use to it. I didn't notice a difference when I switched from my 20" to my 27." You can alway change the settings in Safari and Finder to have larger text.

Sorry, not the right solution. Changing text size in Finder/Safari DOES not address the UI font size.

I agree, I also have a 27" and this is one of my dislikes of the monitor. I wish I could have bigger fonts.

I am starting to regret buying my new 27 inch imac.
'Clear Type' in windows 7 works great. You can set up your resolution just right.
I have bootcamp with Windows 7 professional. I can't believe Apple is behind
windows in this. Please fix this.

Does Windows 7 have true resolution independence? Is that what Clear Type is?

Regards,
Steve M.

I don't know very much about 'clear type' in windows. I bought the 27 iMac - then for $149 I bought the windows 7 OEM. Adding 150 to 2 thousand was no big deal. I played with Windows 7 on and off for a week, but I am back in OS X full time. I just love it too much. So I only played with clear type a little bit, just enough to say, wow, nice. Then on the Mac side I thought it would be nice to have something similar.

I just hope that someday soon we will have true resolution independence in Mac OS.

Regards,
Steve M.

Couple or 3 tips:

For larger desktop icons, right click in an empty part of the desktop screen and select show view options. A new window opens. The slider at the top is for icon size. Slide it to the right to increase size and left to decrease size. If the Set as Defaults option is available, check that then close window.

For Finder windows, open a finder window, offset to the centre right in the grey top part of the window, you will see a cog button, click that and choose show view options. Again a new window opens (just like the window which opened on your desktop). Top slider, slide to right to increase icon size. Again if the Set As Default option is available, check that then exit the window.

Open system prefs, click dock and slide the size slider to the right to increase the dock icon sizes.

All monitors have a recommended resolution, which maximises the resolution to the pixel density (for the sharpest image) using any resolution other than the recommended (usually maximum resolution) will result in a fuzzy image to some extent, due to pixel density, font size, icon size etc to name a few.

Hope this helps

Thanks for trying to help Necronym, but I know all of this. I also believe others know all this. With all your tips, the menu bar and the finder remain small, or they are large and fuzzy.

The tip about going into the terminal and using "defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor 2.0" shows EXACTLY what we are talking about, Resolution Independence. And it seems that Apple is very likely trying to enable this. That line in terminal makes the menu bar large and STUNNINGLY crisp (after you relaunch an application). But the actual software window will remain fuzzy (though larger).