how to increase macOS menu, icon, fonts size with 4K display resolution on 27' monitor

Lovely1day wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I don’t have apple monitor and the scale option is not available. Interestingly I do have the scale option when the display is connected to an Ubuntu pc!

Which Mac mini do you have? Some early ones don't support 4K monitors – if they work with 4K monitors, it's because the monitors are doing "digital zoom". On Mac minis that do support 4K monitors, the available Retina scaling modes might vary with the capabilities of the GPU.

I suspect that all of the Apple Silicon Mac minis and Mac Studios would be happy to drive at least one third-party 4K display with the following Displays Settings choices.

• Retina "looks like 1920x1080" ("Larger Text")
• Retina "looks like 2560x1440" – internal canvas has as many pixels as a 27" Apple 5K Studio Display
• Retina "looks like 3008x1692"– internal canvas has as many pixels as a 32" Apple 6K Pro Display XDR
• Retina "looks like 3360x1890" – internal canvas has more pixels than a 32" Apple 6K Pro Display XDR
• Native 3840x2160 ("More Space")

These are the ones I see on a M1 Max Mac Studio.

Someone with a M3 MacBook Air and two 4K displays reported being unable to select Retina modes above "like 2560x1440" for the second display. That Mac has a resolution limit of "up to 6K" for the first display and "up to 5K" for the second.

Applying that to the Mac mini,

• The M1 and M2 Mac mini can drive two displays, of which one can be a 6K one. I would expect them to be able to drive at least one 4K display with all of the above options.
• A M2 Pro Mac mini can drive three displays, of which two can be 6K ones. I would expect it to be able to drive at least two 4K displays with all of the above options.
• I'm not sure what to expect from Intel Mac minis that are able to drive 4K displays, but not 5K ones. Would the Macs in question offer nothing between Retina "like 1920x1080" mode and native 3840x2160 mode? I do not know if the rules are the same as those for the M3 MacBook Air … but they could be.

Oh, in that case there's SwitchRez X to try!:)

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Reducing your Display resolution is all there is...

Change your Mac display’s resolution - Apple Support

With & without holding Option key whilst clicking on Scaled...

You can change the menu bar size in Accessibility menu.

Two items to think about.

First, there is display resolution which is the actual number of pixels that make up the display.

Second, there is system resolution. This is the resolution that the system displays the desktop items and app windows at.

Setting the "system" resolution to say 2560x1440 still utilizes the full resolution of the display. The result is that what is displayed is sharper since there are more pixels on the display to display the desired "system" pixels. In addition, in Apple computers, internally on the Mac when you select say 2560x1440 "system" resolution, it actually "constructs" the screen internally at 5120x2880 and then scales that to what ever the display is resulting in even better sharpness as a result. FWIW, Apple calls this Retina mode and in the PC world is known as HiDPI mode.

So, in reality, you are not losing "display resolution".

Great my friend, please let us know how it works for you.:)