Hey all!
We are looking for some feedback on the font size used for the Particle System UI, because we are evaluating whether to make it consistent with the rest of the Editor UI, instead of using a smaller font.
What do you think of it? Let us know by using the Poll, and add any extra feedback in the comments! There is a pre-visualization comparing the 2 looks, attached to this post.
Thanks!
I would prefer a more compact option, but if itās an accessibility issue maybe have an option to control the font instead?
I actually found the mini font made the particle system seem more intimidating when I first started using Unity for some reason.
Mini size is perfectly readable on my system.
Iād hate if there were some change to use more space for nothing.
Some sort of option or general unity-editor-ui-scale thing would be cool.
My sight is pretty poor and the unity font size is stretching it already, please donāt make it even worse!
Theyāre considering making the font size bigger, not smaller.
Even though compact font works perfectly fine for me, preferably make it switchable in user preferences because everyoneās monitor and resolution differ.
Why not give the ability to the UI to give fonts a grow-animation as the cursor passes over them so that the text becomes like super Mario eating a mushroom.
I would prefer node based particle system without messing with all this tabs and properties at onceā¦
P.S. Normal font looks better for me
Iād guess because: UX issues (Not intuitive, costs too much space), performance issues of rendering the UI, technical issues (unity having a simple and lightweight GUI api), ā¦
Thereās a reason why you donāt see that anywhere except maybe in game menues (where your goal is completely different: ie displaying very few options in a nice way).
Keep in mind that Unity is a development platform to make games, not a game itself 
Thereās a little icon at the top of the particle system (ā+ā) that allows you to turn off modules you donāt use.
Itās logical to have a consistent UI experience across Unity. If things will not fit, then you need to redesign rather than shrink text. Rollouts/Foldouts solve design problems.
That being said I donāt actually care too much about the issue 
When I saw this on Twitter, I got excited that this could finally be the integrated particle system in the UI Canvas system, only to click and be severely disappointed. 
Regardless, please make the sizing consistent with the rest of the editor UI.
Haha. Yeahā¦
Its on our Todo list, well my Todo list
Maintaining a whole separate GUI style can be a bit of a pain when we want to add new features or support new editor features. If we could use the same as the editor then in theory it could make it a bit easier to maintain and allow us to benefit from any editor improvements in the future.
Adding support for custom fonts or both mini and normal style is certainly something we want to avoid. Those type of things are something that should be editor wide, not just particles.
This is something that came up during a feature review recently and we wanted to find out if itās something people even want. We were not sure at the time.
@karl_jones
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline just had commits today which use the shuriken gui style, so you likely want to stop the momentum internally at this point for less future pain. I left a comment over there but itās just a heads up.
Normal please.
Normal font, consistency is good and it would also allow highlighting prefab changes with bold like everywhere else. Iāve always wondered why the particle system UI looks different. Get rid of the mini style please.
K
Well funny you should mention prefab changes. We just added support for that to the particle system(with mini font) . It was during this that the suggestion was brought up.
Hehe, thatās great. Iād still prefer having the normal font in there, my eyesight isnāt what it used to be.
Personally Iād want it smaller ā¦ Iād want all of the text in the editor smaller though.
Particle systems tend to be giant lists of difficult to see-all-at-once options that larger text just makes worse. Bad eye sight is a fair reason to go the other way, but it wonāt make it any easier to use, at least for those of us who can still see. Itās more an argument for accessability options in the editor.
Yeah although thatās what OS accessibility options are for. These options work fine if the app is consistent with everything else.
Bad eye sight isnāt optional - it will hit some 99% of people in varying degrees past the age of 40. Weāll find itās really an obnoxious argument of younger (for now immortal) people. Itāll happen suddenly and everyone not expecting it will be in for a rueful surprise https://www.visionweb.com/content/consumers/dev_consumerarticles.jsp?RID=1
In before someone without experience says āOh! glasses fix that!ā they donāt really. They help, but as you age further you will find that the usable range of the monitor diminishes, and that means having to adjust the monitorās physical distance or leaning in because the window in which you can focus on small things gets smaller.
Unityās text size for the general editor is about the minimum size it should get.
I donāt think they need to be bigger because the OS magnifier can handle the rest for anyone with worse sight, and they donāt need to be smaller because good design takes care of that, plus itās a pretty consistent size with other apps and the general browsing experience of the web.
TLDR: keep the entire unity text size consistent, then people with individual needs donāt have a moving target to focus on and can better utilise OS accessibility.
