Why can ConsoleEnhanced change font size in the EditorWindow?

Unity Engine
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So there’s a asset called ConsoleEnhanced on Asset Store, In the video, I noticed that the font size of the log texts rendered could be configured… But how?

As far as I know, Unity doesn’t support changing font size in Editor, this has been requested by users for years… Well, maybe this is kind of “commercial secret”? I hope this does no offense to the creator of the asset… I don’t know if this is appropriate, just out of curiosity, what kind of techniques can achieve this?

You know… It would be awesome if we can decide the font size in our own plugins.

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The console (and a lot of other places in Unity) supports a limited set of rich text tags. See here.

So the plugin you’re looking for probably just have a utility log function that looks like this:

public static void LogToConsole(string s) {
    var output = string.Format("<size={0}>{1}</size>", Settings.FontSize, s);
    Debug.Log(output);
}
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The reason Unity doesn’t currently support setting a global font size, is not because the size couldn’t be changed, it’s because most editor windows we’re not designed with this feature in mind. It would require a somewhat responsive layout and specific setups for a lot of texts in the editor. So, on the other hand, doing it for a limited scope, like only for the log window is possible, e.g. as Baste mentioned.

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Wow, I didn’t realized that Rich Text can be applied to stuff like GUI.Label, Thanks!