How do I adjust the FONT SIZE on Safari 10?

I agree that this is annoying and stupid, especially for Apple, who are usually excellent at providing accessibility features for users. Looking online, I found a solution though. Enter the following into terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2MinimumFontSize -int 14

Replace the number 14 at the end with whatever you want your minimum font size to be. Then restart safari.

Kaeve, I was hoping there'd be a simple and easy solution and this is it. Thank you, it worked perfectly.

That terminal code thing has worked perfectly so thanks for that to everyone who suggested it.

Given that it works using terminal it suggests the functionality is still there but Apple have removed the menu option for some stupid reason.

Kaeve... Brilliant !! How can I send you a Starbucks gift card or buy you a drink ? Thank you times a million.

Select the line posted above. It's all one line.

Choose Copy from the Edit menu, or command-c

Launch Terminal. It's in Applications/Utilities.

In Terminal a cursor will be blinking. That's where your pasted command will go. You don't have to select a place - it's not possible to.

Paste by one of the following:

1) command-v

2) choose Paste from the Edit menu.

Hit Return.

You should get no error message. It will just give you another cursor.

You can Quit Terminal now if you wish.

Quit and relaunch Safari.

Oh and look what I hoped on page 1 here:

Harold Holbrook wrote:

I'm hoping there will be a property list setting that we can set in Terminal.

And so there is.

YES! ✅ YES! ✅ YES! ✅ A thousand times yes!

Worked like a charm and Safari is instantly useable again. I occasionally copy and paste things I've seen suggested to use in Terminal but didn't know enough about Safari prefs to know about this tweak.

Apple still needs to correct their deletion of this setting in Safari. They should give you a $1,000 Apple Gift Card for giving the rest of us this lovely fix, especially if they don't ever bother to put the setting back into their browser preferences. I imagine this tweak will be all over the interwebz now, given the number of forums where I've seen protests about this Safari/Apple goof up.

You rock. THANK YOU!

🙂

Okay. I may have found a simple solution to the small text. Husband is a software engineer. He noticed I was not updated to the latest macOS Sierra. (Just came available.) His computer (always up to date) was not having the same problems. He suggested I update. I grimaced thinking it was surely not that. But... I did. And everything seems to be back to normal. You have to go to the Apple site to download. My computer kept saying there were no updates.

Suggest you all update, if you haven't already done so. 😉

Spotlight search terminal

open terminal, put in command

defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2MinimumFontSize -int 14

(where the last number is font size you need: 12, 13, 14 or else. Change this as you wish)

press enter

From Terminal app paste the following but change the 14 to the point size you want. Quit and restart safari.

defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2MinimumFontSize -int 14

Thanks for that, I wonder is there a similar command for system wide fonts, I'm getting older and want to rely less on my glasses and things like system menus, aperture and mail aren't as big as I'd like them to be?