P: Modifying font and font size in the interface

"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."

Well, they haven't...surprise surprise. How about you make it crystal clear to your team to PRIORITIZE THIS ASAP. It's really galling, honestly, to announce this feature that literally strips the only font size hack we had. Adobe should be ashamed for not meeting the most basic of accessibility options for those with visual impairment.

Hi all. I have researched everywhere and it seems like the option to increase UI font size using engineering tools is gone. I know that there is the Project Panel option but it only affects that panel. I teach both face to face and online and have many students with disabilities and accessibility problems visually speaking, so I can't understand why Adobe doesn't make that an easy and accessible function under appearance. Anything I am missing?

Mod note: Edited for content. Please do not discuss the use of internal engineering tools.

Is there any new developments regarding this issue? Now that our current projects are nearing completion we are considering leaving the Adobe ecosystem even though it will cost us in additional time & energy in getting up to speed with new software, but we believe the long term benefits will be worth it.

We considered adding a section to our newsletters about this issue and if possible asking our partners & customers to transition to more user-friendly software to have a more sustainable working environment in the industry, but we are going to postpone this in the hopes that there will be an update from the developers.

Please keep us up to date, thank you.

I can barely see many of the panels and settings with "Premier Pro 2025", and I can find no way to fix it.   Almost as bad, there are now huge gaps of space between the lines of many of the fields/menus/panels, almost 50% if the screen real estate is wasted and I even now have to SCROLL to reach the elements near the bottom while the font itself is smaller and much harder to read.

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Hello @Carson Jones,

Thanks for your reply.

I appreciate that the Adobe team are aware our frustration over this issue.

Thank you.

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.

I will let a product manager answer that advice. Thanks.

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.

I hope a developer will respond about why they build software the way they do. Please upvote if you have not already done so. Sorry for the frustration.

Cheers,
Kevin

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.