How can I adjust the font size in iTunes 11?

It's very easy change fonts on iTunes check this ---> http://wp.me/ps4An-b4v

1. Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu and head to “Accessibility”
2. Find the “Hearing” section in the left side menu and choose “Captions”
3. Create a new custom (the best option) subtitle choice by selecting the [+] plus button, or choose one of the three default styles: “Default”, “Classic”, or “Large Text”

This font is awful, I agree. I'm told it looks nice on retina displays but cannot confirm that, and on my 1920x1200 Cinema, it looks horrid, takes up too much space, and is physically difficult to read. Just setting a Finder window next to iTunes 11 shows how much easier it is to read the Finder (regardless of the "Sidebar icon size" preference setting, though mine is set to small).

Hopefully someone enterprising will figure out a hack to undo this, and hopefully they won't roll out this change in any other software.

Doesn't Apple have normal people who look at this stuff before it goes out? Lucida Grande was fine!

If you really want to do it the hard way, and know what you're doing, you can use Xcode's plist editor, or a text editor, and change the font entries in iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/TextStyles.plist from HelveticaNeue back to LucidaGrande as well as adjusting the sizes at whim. Obviously choose your language-specific directory if it's not English.

Note that if you do this, iTunes' bundle signature will no longer be the same, and you'll get some fresh prompts, like from the built-in firewall, and possibly other small quirks.

I want to be able to make the font size in the "Songs" listing back to the smaller one used by earlier versions of itunes, so I can see more songs, and manage things better. I have two Apple Cinema displays, and the bigger fonts for the text only list views in itunes 11 are simply a pain, and look kind of cheesy on my setup, as I have all my system fonts in Finder set as small as I can to maximize the amount that views show.

I know that this is for the Mac version BUT on Windows 7 I was able to change the font size by editing the TextStyles.plist file located in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.Resources\en.lproj\ (en signifies English language)

Since there's over 3000 lines of code in there, I did a find and replace for <integer>11</integer> (font size 11) with <integer>8</integer> (font size 8).
I was looking to resize the sidebar and lists text and that did the trick. I would think there's a similar file for the Mac version.

Don't forget to make a back up of the original!

And if you are going to be changing more than one size, make sure to start from a lower integer, first resize 11's then 12's. Or you'll endup resizing 13 down to 10 then 10 down to 8 which will also change the 13 from earlier to 8...

How to change fontsize in iTunes

Take an XML-Editor and open:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.Resources\de.lproj\TextStyles.plist"

For other languages change your country code (de, en, fr, pl ...).

Example for english: "\en.lproj\TextStyles.plist".

Backup this File !!!

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To change the Text-Size, change the integer value of the following item:

"<key>size</key>"

"<integer>8</integer>"

This means Text-Size 8

"<key>size</key>"

"<integer>12</integer>"

This means Text-Size 12

To change the font, change the integer value of the following item:

<key>font</key>

<string>Arial</string>

This means the font changes to Arial

This also works: 😉

<key>italic</key>

<true/>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>underline</key>

<true/>

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Example of common Text Properties:

<!-- Artist View, Text Size In Artist List , Unselected -->

<key>1033</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item table cell 3</string>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Artist View, Text Size In Artist List, Selected -->

<key>1034</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item table cell 3 (bold)</string>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Album View Text Size, Titles Of Track List, After Click On Album -->

<key>1021</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item track list 1</string>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI Semibold</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Artist View Text Size, Titels Of Track List -->

<key>1022</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item track list 2</string>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>justification</key>

<string>right</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Track Number Size, In Album And Artist View -->

<key>1023</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item track list 3</string>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>justification</key>

<string>right</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>9</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Artist Text Size, In Album And Artist View -->

<key>1024</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item track list 4</string>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>9</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Album View Text Size, Title Of Album Under The Cover -->

<key>1001</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item grid 1</string>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Album View Text Size, Artist Under The Cover -->

<key>1002</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>item grid 2</string>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Titleview Textsize In Table -->

<key>9002</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>List Contents (Small)</string>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>8</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Title View Text Size, Title Of Album Next To Cover -->

<key>9029</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>List Contents (Small Bold)</string>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>5</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Textsize Playlist Sidebar Left Selected -->

<key>1307</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>playlists outline small font (selected)</string>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>3</integer>

</dict>

<!-- Textsize Playlist Sidebar Left Unselected -->

<key>1304</key>

<dict>

<key>- loc hint -</key>

<string>playlists outline small font</string>

<key>bold</key>

<true/>

<key>font</key>

<string>Segoe UI</string>

<key>size</key>

<integer>7</integer>

</dict>

Hope this helps.

I findout the quickly way is edit like u said.

Find :<string>List Contents (Large)</string>

and change the : <integer>15</integer> to <integer>12</integer> or smaller

It will change List Contents font size in your iTunes.

Hope this will make more clear.🙂

Sounds to me like iTunes is hated so badly, that it's creating software hackers out of frustration! Add me to the list - I'm sick of the awful font and the rigid (un-customizable) formatting too, and will have to start learning some coding.

I'm using iTunes 12.1.2.27 and your list of songs in the main window is controlled through iTunes preferences under iTunes/Preferences/General "List Size" pull down menu. However, the playlist on the left column is not controllable via iTunes. In order to change this font size you can use your system preferences to get it to a "small" "medium" or "large" size by using System Preferences/General "Sidebar icon size" pull down menu. I prefer mine on "small' so this was a good fix to a problem Apple should address in future updates. It doesn't make sense to choose your listed songs in a small size and have no ability to make the sidebar listed playlists match that font size. I guess many of us are OCD that way!

Can you translate that coding into plain english? My eyes glazed over just looking at the instructs. I have great diffilculty reading the text in all my playlists and would greatly appreciate an easier way to increase the size if that's at all possible.

Yes under preferences general you can select use large text for list views. But other than that i do not think you can change the size