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On Maverick, how do you change the size of the menu bar font?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
It's not like the code to change menu fonts should be that daunting a task to add nor actually cost anything to implement ... it's apparently a matter of style being valued over utility.
It's actually a heck of a lot of work. Microsoft decided to create Windows 95 and later as a resolution independent desktop.
For whatever reason, Apple has never given users the option to choose any font they want for the GUI.
Unlike Windows, the Mac OS is not an active desktop. Or as some techs call it, resolution independent. When you change a system font, everything needs to make room for your changes. Meaning every single application dialogue item needs to expand, shrink, or move as necessary so the font, and font size you chose doesn't cause text to overrun the space it's supposed to fit in. The Mac OS doesn't do this, so the fonts are chosen by Apple and coded to fit a fixed space.
If you were allowed to change the system font appearance, but nothing was coded to make room for it, you would get results like this:
Normal:
Same app with a change to the system font used for the menus to Times Regular at a larger size, but in a non resolution independent app:
I didn't change everything, just enough to show the idea. But this is what would happen everywhere on the system if you could choose any font and font size you wanted, but nothing could adjust for space.
As for the Accessibility Pane, that was the second place I looked ... nothing there to simply increase the system menu font size.
Nope, there's never been anything there for that function. As stated in this topic, the only way to adjust Apple's menu is to adjust the entire screen resolution.
Have done just that. It needs to be fixed.
I am starting to wish I stayed with PC; it is a pain in the arse having to continually change FONT on different product as well as increasing the FONT size.
Not impressed.
Thanks Old Toad. But APPLE need to get the basic right we should not have to download extras to do a basic thing as setting your computer FONT & SIZE .
They also need to work on their MAPS another waste of time even had a CS person at APPLE tell it was crap (my word)
Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
If enough users ask for that capability maybe Apple will include it the next time around.
LOL! The new apple display is 5K resolution, and the menu Bar looks like 2pt font. There IS NO FIX!!!!
Haven't had to opportunity to use, much less see a 5K iMac. So can't make a judgement of my own. As has been stated a few times in this topic, leave feedback to Apple for at least some minor control over the menu bar's font size. No amount of complaining here will change it, and the only solution anyone can give you at the moment is to reduce the monitor resolution.
Nearly three years on, and still no decent solution to a very simple problem.
Its just absolutely ridiculous!
There is no solution because it's not designed to be user changeable.
how do you change the size of the font in the menu bar running Maverick?
