P: Modifying font and font size in the interface

Hello @XilburQost,

Thanks for the reply.

While that may be sincere, based upon past experience it has no basis in reality, unless of course it's referring to a geologic timescale. We all know that for now and for the years to come Adobe will be busy putting out fires caused by its headlong rush into the latest new features. would like to be able to change the font and font size across the board in the interface.

Cheers,
Kevin

Hello @SpivR,

Thanks for the reply.

Are you talking weeks, months, years, or decades?

As with any information about the timing of future features, Adobe generally doesn't do that for legal reasons. We'd need a product manager here to do anything like that. Hopefully, one will chime in. Sorry for the frustration.

Thanks,
Kevin

Hello @jackthegiantkiller,

Thanks for your reply.

Why on earth would Adobe launch this new "feature" without the singular function your users have been begging for years and years? How about you wait to launch this half-baked Spectrum UI until you have successfully incorporated font size adjustments for our aging eyes? Why break the one hack we had to increase the UI font, bolting right out of the gate, without giving us any alternatives at first launch?

I understand your frustration and wish I could provide more details. Your question is more for a product manager. I hope they will provide a response for you here.

Thanks,
Kevin

I appreciate that the Adobe team are aware our frustration over this issue. I'd like to relay the idea to them also, that when designing a new UI model, the parameters and functionality that users find essential (eg. modifying the UI to properly adjust to the workstation being used) must be maintained. In other words, I 'get' that the new model doesn't allow for the previous functionality of adjusting the font size. My question is why did your process of building the new UI and your way of thinking about it, discount the need for users to scale the UI font to work in their workstation setup in this case? Why, when designing the new UI, was it okay to remove useful functionality? Not only has this become a source of frustration for many users, but it seems like an unreasonable compromise.

Adding a BIG enthusiastic thumbs up for needing this. Thank you. It makes a difference. 

@Kevin-Monahan

"Help is on the way, it's just going to take some time"

While that may be sincere, based upon past experience it has no basis in reality, unless of course it's referring to a geologic timescale. We all know that for now and for the years to come Adobe will be busy putting out fires caused by its headlong rush into the latest new features. 

@Kevin-Monahan 

"Help is on the way, it's just going to take some time"

Some scope to comments like this would add credibility instead of incredulity.

Are you talking weeks, months, years, or decades?

(Obviously, a roadmap with actual dates is something that only corporate or major Hollywood studios can probably extract in NDA briefings by waving their wallets and screaming at VP or SVP of sales, but at least some realistic estimate - say less then 6 months or longer than a year, might be a lot more believable than the continued "trust us, we know you want it and we are working on something".)

Let's sum this up quickly. Many people use 4K displays. Font scaling has been a critical UI feature used for refining our workstations. The latest 2025 release of both PPro and AE has removed this option for reasons unknown. It was a bad decision.

The simple solution, I'm hoping we see a hot fix for asap, is to bring back the option to adjust the font size.

I shouldn't have to be requesting this. The option to do this shouldn't have been removed in the first place.

Totally agree.

The only thing worse than Adobe not fixing the font problem, is actually removing the workaround and putting an inferior temporary scaffold in its place with no user-facing benefit.

I guess nobody is paying attention to Sonos and how they have lost millions of dollars and had to delay two major new product launches because they "upgraded" their flagship app by dropping features and making existing functionality buggy and unreliable all in the name of "progress".

Can't the new generative Ai be commanded to magically make the font bigger? People act like it is better than sliced bread even if the resolution is capped too low.  Just joking and letting out some stressed eye frustration. Hope they fix this soon.