Hi all,
How to change font size in unity editor?
Thanks in advance
Hi all,
How to change font size in unity editor?
Thanks in advance
Itâs not possible.
âEric
Thank you.
Unity really needs to fix this urgently.
Add a config option for font base size⌠how freaking HARD could it be?
I just switched to a new high-DPI machine. This is 2880x1620 pixels on a 15" IPS display.
Why did I choose so? So I can enjoy a higher-resolution game preview and no longer work under 1920x1080 which gives me a game-view of around 1136x640 since I donât like maximizing it, because tweaking in the inspector and hierarchy while running etc.
Well guess what, this is only possible for me if I tick the Disable display scaling on high DPI settings check-box option on the Compatibility tab of Unityâs editor.exe Properties dialog.
If I do so: nothing, nothing is legible in Inspector/Hierarchy/Project/dialogs etc. I do have great eyesight! But high-DPI is, well, lots of dots per inch! News at eleven, right?
If I donât: then I donât even get full-HD (1080p) but less and worse: I get half-native resolution (1440x810!!) upscaled blurrily. Yes thatâs sadly how it works with Windowsâ hi-DPI scaling. So I upgraded to a shiny new high-resolution workhorse in order for Unity to downgrade my visual work experience and in-editor and Game View resolution.
Guys, this is getting ridiculous⌠this is really super-embarrassing! Even before high-DPI displays (though theyâve been around for a few years if weâre being honest) a simple font-size option would have been in order since dunno perhaps 2009? But now itâs LONG EFFIN OVERDUE.
Now I donât suggest to be clever and put this into U5 as a âpowerful new featureâ like the LOOONG-OVERDUE 64-bit editor! This should have been a given years ago! Now you finally made it work and then some sales&marketing crook comes along and says âthis is pretty crucial nowadays, so better put it in the v5 upgrade pathâ?
Now, this other long-overdue need for a âsuper simple base-font-size optionâ (you already ARE using some hardcoded font-size, just expose it, in the Windows registry or an .ini file if necessary, we mostly donât care for cosmetics here I think) should really arrive in 4.5.2 or 4.6 worst-caseâŚ
Sheeesh⌠guess I just throw out my marvellous brand-new Quadro-powered mobile workstation and grab a 3rd-hand ca. 2009 laptop so I can work with freaking Unity Engine and be able to read its GUIâŚ
By the way I have two Pro licenses and many thousands invested in Asset Store over the last year. So my frustration is subjectively perhaps even say 8000 times as high as I would feel as a Free Indie user. But thatâs a subjective guess.
Adding a config that lets you choose a font size is trivial, obviously. Changing the whole of the editor layout code to work with different font sizes is not trivial. This is on our Editor team roadmap, but hasnât been started yet.
metaleap, if you look at the editor GUI API, youâll see that some parts of it use layouts (e.g. here), but some other parts use dimensions given in pixels (e.g. here). Since thereâs no way to know how tall and wide the editor font is from code, all code written using this kind of pixel-based measurement would die horribly if this font changed. Think of what would happen to the Unity editor itself (if it uses fixed dimensions internally), but also to all the stuff on the asset store which would also break âŚ
Pixel-based measurements with no awareness of a font size and fixed-size fonts on modern screens obviously look like an heresy to me as they do to you; CSS for example uses the âemâ unit along with pixel-based measurements to avoid such problems. I bet this is old stuff from the first unity versions that survived until now. Maybe it was too expensive to implement something better at that time ? Iâm not surprised to learn that the Unity team will get it fixed soon, just be patient.
The fonts and icons look ugly as sin on retina displays. The size isnât so much of a problem because osx scale everything to something like 1440x900 but the quality is horrible. Is there not an easy way to replace the font with something of a higher quality or use the system font?
No, there is not an option at this time. Weâre working on it.
my eyes will be grateful
Good to hear that Unity team is working on it.
Nice feature to make the editor more comfortable and improves its usability.
Graham,
long 7 months have past since this thread, there are even threads with this simple request from 2011, you guys still thinking of this or has it been thrown to the blackhole bin?
i dont consider myself as a poor sighted fella but i sure dont have supermanâs eyesight. seriously bro.
look at people screaming for help since looooong time ago:
2011
http://feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/change-font-size-in-unity-editor
2012
2014
or has it been started already and planning of releasing with unity 5?
come on man, damn editor fonts are ridiculously small, i actually use the magnify glass app from windows, this is getting really annoyingâŚ
please advice.
Itâs still on the roadmap.
I believe that some of the work has been started, yes, but itâs not going to be ready for Unity 5.0.
Would be a great new feature as I had to install windows magnifying glass for the first time in my life to read certain small x, y, z numbers for say, imported assets âŚfor example.
Bump. Got myself high res monitors and it is getting hard to read the gui text. This is getting more important with every day, since spread of high resolution monitors is on the rise. I assume, you unity devs are also not only 20 year old jet pilots with perfect vision Please invest some time into this.
Other than that, keep up the good work!
+1
I vote for this option too. In current state itâs possible to use editor only on my old PC.
We know it needs to be done. And we will do it. Canât say when, though.
+1 vote for this feature
+1
I have to lower resolution because of font size.
(upvoting here isnât a useful as upvoting here.)
If you have problem with Unity font size then you have problems with all general font size. You can always change your OS default font size. For a 4K or 8K In Windows you can go to screen panel and make the fonts 125% or 150% bigger.