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I am a new iMac user so forgive my ignorance! I cannot get the font size on my 21 inch iMAC to increase and am having a hard time reading the screen? Can anyone tell me the way to do this please?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), Font/text size query
There is no system font size adjustment per say, But you can change the "resolution" of the screen to make everything on the screen bigger. Go into your Applications folder>System Preferences>Display>and there click on the tab named "Display">click on the button "Scaled". You now have a list of availble screen resolutions for your display, and can select a "lower" resolution down the list to enlarge your screen images.
No Paul, Pages was paid for and came pre-installed with my new iMac. I will have a look at those links anyway, thanks.
PS Limousin is in France! Due north of Toulouse! Cold here too, but colder in the UK I hear
Yep, I know Limousin. My wife's always trying to get me to stop in Limoges for some porcelain, but I'm normally too busy with my foot to the floor trying to catch a ferry 😀.
Thanks. This helped.
I've tried for a few days to resize my text, found your solution and it sure works for me. Thank you.
I just read this hint and it is helpful but it seems only for the folder that is open- or perhaps the parent folder as well. I'm not sure what the "default" covers.
It might be helpful to actually measure the font size you are seeing and the Mac says it is displaying. A true 12 point font is 12/72" high, or 4.23mm high, and this height is measured from the top of the letters to the bottom of the descenders. For example, the top to bottom of the characters in "TgTgTgTgTgTgTgƒƒƒƒƒƒƒHelp".
To see what Mac scales its font sizes as, create a file with a name like that, measure it as displayed on-screen in Finder, convert it to physical points and compare it to what Finder thinks the font size is in View / Show View Options / Text Size.
On my 15" MacBookPro8,2 Early 2011 with 1680x1020 resolution (130dpi), what Finder calls 12 point text is more like 2.5mm or 7 point text. Finder's 16 point font is like 3.5mm, or 3.5/25.4*72=10pt font.
If I use the System Preferences/Display/Display/Scaled/1280 x 800 setting (100dpi), then Finder's 16 point font is physically 4.5mm high, or 12.75pt.
If I scale to 1152x720, (~90dpi) then Finder's 16 point font is physically 5mm or 14.7pt high.
Scaled to 1024 x 640 (~80dpi), Finder's 16 point font is physically 6mm or 17pt.
Comparing the Finder font sizes with the sizes of the top menu bar, it appears that the Menus match Finder's size 15 text. (Try a file named 'Help'.)
My 50+ year-old eyes are better off with the physically 3mm or 8.5pt fonts resulting from 1280x800 scaling and Finder's font size 12. With that, I get reasonable real-estate on my laptop screen and proportionality with the rest of the menus and everything else. My 1920x1200 desktop monitor doesn't need the scaling and has more real estate.
how can increase text/font size iMac late 2012
