Shrink "Colors" and/or "Fonts" Palette in Apple apps?

Thanks, Viking. Yes, I'd already done the diagonal drag on both and posted those results. It's still pretty huge at 7 square inches on my big screen.

However! I just played around with the "Colors" palette again and discovered that the "Apple" Colors can reduce the giant Crayola panel I'd been using by 70%! It now only takes up TWO square inches [see screenshot] and I can push about half of that off-screen! So that's something.

Thanks for the nudge to play around with it again. I never used that particular selection of colors because the interface was kind of ugly and I liked the larger selection, but most of the time I just need yellow and red anyway!

I'd still be interested if anyone has heard of shareware that might allow one to customize these panels.

Much Obliged!

Mick

dialabrain wrote:

I don't know if it will help but you might want to take a look at System Color Picker in the App Store. Among other things it apparently allows one to assign colors to keyboard shortcuts. I haven't tried it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/system-color-picker/id1545870783?mt=12

I'll check that out when I'm back on the MBAir running Monterey. It won't load on the Mac mini running Catalina.

Thanks!

Well, now it's super weird because I can't get it back down to this tiny size and don't know why... [sigh]

Such a clunky, ancient interface too. We really need a Search bar there to take up space?....

Mick Guinn wrote:

Well, now it's super weird because I can't get it back down to this tiny size and don't know why... [sigh]

Wow, fell down a rabbit hole here as I was able to shrink the palette down to the tiny screenshot I pasted above on both Macs (one running the latest Catalina, the other Monterey)...and then I wasn't. ☹️

Does anyone have any idea why that palette would shrink down with the lower right corner drag and then later refuse to?... I can't figure out if something is blocking it and have searched all settings and such to find what I did right the first few times, which now seems to be blocked...

Much obliged for any ideas... so weird...

I finally got a computer prescription too. My mistake was that I got the same frames as my other progressive pairs for longer distances, so I was confusing those from time to time. 🤓

I eventually brought them to Costco to figure out which was which. Now they're marked, but it had been over 2 years, so I booked another eye exam for after Xmas. The hardest thing to see is usually trying to type coherent file names on the desktop and I have the font as large as I can stand in terms of what it does to the whole desktop.

I must say, I really look forward to more truly edge-to-edge displays in the MBAir line. It may be an illusion, but giving users more storage along the edges, would be lovely.

Since owning my first laptop (a Mac, of course) in the 90s, I'd always bought whatever the high end was because they were so much slower than Mac Desktops. A year ago, I sold my 6 mos. old MBP top-o-the-line 13" and financed a 16GB RAM MBAir and have just been gobsmacked. I have never loved an Apple laptop more, ever... Waaaaaaay faster than the late 2020 MBP, no huffing and puffing Intel processor, so cool running that I often needed a blanket in my lap in the morning, and finally, for the first time ever for me, a battery that literally lasts all day.

Meanwhile, there's still something that triggers the collapsibility of these panels and it seems like you can trick them into going small again, by flicking the resolution.

Yeah, I suppose that helps out

dialabrain wrote:

You're welcome. FWIW, as far as "search", some my find it more convenient to type in color codes than scroll through a bunch of colors. Web Safe Colors for example…

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/00a55fb8-211c-4c3a-ace4-452f7119ddaa

Yeah, I suppose that helps out designers, but it TextEdit, and Apple's Mail and such really used that much for design? I know you can HTML in TextEdit, but I don't think it's the fave among the designers I know. I'm guessing it's a carry-over from NeXT?