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Adjust font size outside of scaling the UI.

While I have found a couple of extensions that adjust font size specifically, it would be nice to be able to increase or decrease the font size independent of scaling the UI and based upon client preferences. Some of my players, and myself, have a difficult time seeing the text in the chat window. Scaling the UI crowds the screen making the interface a little difficult to work with. Most of my players are on laptops and screen space comes at a premium.
I would imagine folks who have 13.5 inch laptop screens find that scaling the UI up makes it very difficult to interact with the environment. Thus increasing the font independent would help everyone.

CD0369, 22.01.2021, 07:03
Idea status: under consideration

Comments

moon_wizard, 22.01.2021, 07:07
The reason why font can't be adjusted independently of the overall scale is because the entire rest of the screen defined by the ruleset is based on the assumption that the font is a specific size for laying out all windows. If the font size is adjusted independently larger (like some extensions do), then you see text truncation/clipping as labels/fields become too small to hold text, as well as other graphics anomalies.
Ken Anderson, 11.03.2022, 09:16
This and another idea labelled Allow Rich Text Format - coloured text, fonts, text size, etc. are both in the same line of thinking. both are asking that fonts should be changed. This Font problem is probably my worst and I agree with all the comments on both of these entries. If they were joined together as one comment it would be at the top of your list to do.

So lets do it .
springdew, 19.05.2023, 15:16
For me, this is an accessibility issue. I simply can't see the font if I have to move to a larger or smaller screen. I don't always have the luxury of using the same monitor all the time, and I wind up losing an hour or more of gameplay trying to arrange things to accommodate them after getting the text to a legible size. Because once something is off the side of the tabletop, it's not retrievable. So it's scale down, grab the item, scale up, can I still grab and move the item? If not, scale down again. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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