Need to Increase Font Size..

There is some very blatant lying going on here by a poster with a few tens of thousands of posts under their belts who 've appointed themselves to acting as apologists for a long standing problem apple refuses to adress.

The fuziness in the zoom in fuction is neither minimal nor unoticeable. Why? Because lcd screens are by virtue of their underlying technology very poor at interpolating to lower resolutions. To some young eyes it might not seem that fuzzy but wait until your usage of computers (and who can afford not to use computers in this age) will degrade your eyesight. Is your eyesight something you are willing to risk?

And the problem is getting worse and worse as apple is using higher and higher resolutions panels to their machines (good for them, good for us, that's the way forward and what others are doing so) yet refusing to adress the defiency of their os in handling text sizes for these machines.

This is coming from a long time user of apple who owns countless of their machines and has suggested their machines to countless of their friends and family at the risk of getting overly insistent. I would not suggest using OS X at the moment to anyone with less than perfect eyesight or with anyone interested in preserving their eye sight. And I would never dream of not suggesting os x to people a year back or so.

But this is what happens when you fail to adress real usability issues, that are not matters of opinion, but rather matters of fact. People stop suggesting your products.

I would also urge everyone to leave feedback to apple on this. This is the only way you are going to effect the change you want to see happening. I cannot stress this enough, leave feedback.

As a courtesy to other users, I will however suggest a few workarounds such as menueverywhere and menupopup for larger customizable fonts for the menubar via a menu bar that either follows the window or pops up everywhere via a hotkey, tinkertool as was suggested, zoom functions is browsers. All of these are poor workarounds and they cannot be anything else if apple continues to refuse to adress such a core issue with their os.

applesuper wrote:

There is some very blatant lying going on here by a poster with a few tens of thousands of posts under their belts who 've appointed themselves to acting as apologists for a long standing problem apple refuses to adress.

If you're going to make the charge, at least back it up with some specifics. Pretty gutless statement, otherwise.

agj333 wrote:

I have to wear FOUR different sets of eye glasses depending on the focal distance I am trying to see.

1. CLOSE FOCUS, as for cutting my nails, etc.
2. READING, for anything hand held.
3. COMPUTER, to focus on a screen 2-3 ft away.
4. DISTANCE, for driving 100- to infinity.

There is a specific pair of adjustable glasses for those in your situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable-focus_eyeglasses

Also I suffer from older eyes, use Firefox and the NoSquint (remembers web page zoom level) and Theme Font & Size Changer (changes type size of Firefox itself)

I use a light blue persona, which makes white and black type easier to see with better contrast than Safari black on grey.

I also have a scroll wheel mouse with Universal Access set the control key and can zoom the entire OS X in and out where ever the mouse pointer is at, also to scroll the screen edge whereever the mouse is pointed at.

I have a 17" high res anti-glare screen, surely on a huge screen I would do even better.

I also wear reading glasses.

So all I can suggest is a combination of the above and work it as best as one can.

OS X can only be pushed so far in increasing font sizes, even on Windows it messes things up.

To increase the font size on any apple you need to hit the command key and the plus key to increase the font size and the same thing with the minus key to decrease the size. It has helped me tremendously.

Also if you want to increase the font size on your desktop you right click the mouse pad and go to appearances and you can change the font size to whatever you like.