Question for Old Eyes

[iMacUnsure]

How do I increase the font size on the screen? My eyes are not what they use to be.

 

[SandboxGeneral]

In system Preferences you can go into the Accessibility and make adjustments like cursor size and contrast under the Display setting. Then you can set up zoom options as well. I can zoom my screen in an area by pointing the cursor there and holding a button on the keyboard while moving the wheel button on the mouse.

In System Preferences under General, you can increase the sidebar icon size for Finder.

Otherwise, I think you'd also need to look in the app preferences to see what each one offers for increasing font size and other things.

 

[Apple fanboy]

How do I increase the font size on the screen? My eyes are not what they use to be.

Or just double tap your magic mouse!

 

[iMacUnsure]

Thanks guys. Went into Safari under preferences and changed it. I did not know about the mouse tap thats pretty neat.

 

[ickystay]

Changing your screen resolution will make everything bigger. I just did this when using my TV as a monitor.

My eyes are getting up there in years.

 

[firedept]

You can also hold Command+scroll on Magic Mouse. That will change fonts size up or down.

 

[tom vilsack]

51 year old eyes here also...I use firefox for my browser and under tools/option/content/advanced I change min font size to 15...then to get bookmarks ect bigger I use the plugin called "theme font size changer"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/

 

[bobright]

What are you guys using on Chrome, anybody? I'm using Zoomall but it mucks up certain webpages for me a lot of the time

 

[kazmac]

Great tips

Thanks to everyone who posted them.

 

[Drooler]

I drool as well

Bought a new 27 in IMAC because win 8 was driving me mad, I'm a bit long in the tooth 88 in november -- having trouble trying to see the top task bar and dont know how to increase the Font - win vista was a dream APPs give me the PIP, did apple copy win or did win copy apple chinese engineers maybe Think I paid enough for this wormmie apple withouthaving to buy apps -- I'm not apps to !

 

[thedeske]

Zooming in a browser and on the desktop gets to be second nature as the eyes fade

 

[old-wiz]

Zooming in a browser and on the desktop gets to be second nature as the eyes fade

Tell me about it....some web pages have stories that are in such small fonts that I wonder who composes them. I use zoom in and out a lot these days, and the biggest reason I bought an iPad was to be able to read books more easily - paperbacks have become impossible with their newspaper size print, and hardbacks too bulky.

 

[Fishrrman]

[[ Tell me about it....some web pages have stories that are in such small fonts that I wonder who composes them...]]

The answer is easy: young people.

This is why, in other threads, I recommend the 27" "mid-resolution" monitors (1920 x 1080) for older folks whose vision isn't what it used to be.

What these are, are the same resolution as 24" displays normally had as their "native resolution", but "blown up" a bit to expand to a 27" form factor.

The result is a display with larger pixels (.031mm, I believe).

To young people a display with this native resolution looks "grainy".

To us older folks, it looks GREAT.

To anyone younger reading this, just wait thirty more years -- by then you should begin to understand.

 

[dylin]

In system Preferences you can go into the Accessibility and make adjustments like cursor size and contrast under the Display setting. Then you can set up zoom options as well. I can zoom my screen in an area by pointing the cursor there and holding a button on the keyboard while moving the wheel button on the mouse.

In System Preferences under General, you can increase the sidebar icon size for Finder.

Otherwise, I think you'd also need to look in the app preferences to see what each one offers for increasing font size and other things.

Wow, thank you so much!