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October 25, 2018
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P: Modifying font and font size in the interface

  • October 25, 2018
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I would like to be able to change the font and font size across the board in the interface. it is WAY to small for my old eyes

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Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 21, 2025
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Not sure it's still the case, but in the days of fcp 1-7, there was NO overt participation by apple in the user forum.

 

Not on the Apple FCP forum, but on 2-pop.com, there was Ralph Fairweather, a great man who I model my Adobe support career after. Tom Wolsky was the man on the Apple forums, but he came from the community. He wrote some books on the topic. Nice guy too. I wonder how he's doing?

 

The leader of the LACPUG is stepping down in June; it's the end of an era. Ralph presented at the first meeting. I was there. It was awesome.

 

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Participant
February 21, 2025

I have little faith that this will be addressed, but here goes.
What the hell happened to the UI size customisation?
the icons and font is so tiny especially on 4K monitors!
I just upgraded to new versiopn and this is no longer an option. Adobe support was not able to really help to make iot much bigger.
Adobe?? I need to see the UI to be able to work!

 

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

 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
February 21, 2025

You obviously didn't search the forum before posting. There have been a ton of threads on the subject. Including some Idea posts with staffers comments added in.

 

You might want to look around a bit.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Known Participant
January 30, 2025

Well, I´m using a 48" LG C4 as editing monitor, and all my edits are in HDR 4K and I have the best display that I can imagine, but even so I NEED to scale the UI of Premiere. I have installed the 2025 version but working with the 2024 version "with the trick" because I CANNOT SEE THE UI.

 

 

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2025

Oh, boy...

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2025

Are you using any OS screen scaling?

Participating Frequently
January 30, 2025
No - as Premiere Pro is the only app which strains my eyes…
MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2025

Don't forget, there's always your ability to purchase a lower resolution monitor. Say you want a 32" monitor, instead of buying that new 4K monitor you've been looking at, go with a beautiful QHD - 2560 x 1440 instead. The pixel sizes will be bigger than in the 4k monitor. You'll save some $$$ and have a monitor you can run at 100%.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 29, 2025

How you implement anything is naturally going to be seen by different people as to it's "usability". So I can see the devs feeling that for the vast majority of users they have implemented a correct situation.

 

I don't agree that is the decision I would want. But I can distinguish between my views and what others may see. We are all different. Period.

 

Some things that one user thinks are clearly necessary for all users are things other users never want to see at all. Again, we are all different.

 

So no, it isn't that they aren't aware of an issue, it's that they don't see the same 'result' as you. And me.

 

And that is what we need to convince them to allow the change for.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participating Frequently
January 29, 2025

User interface font size is one of the most basic elements of any software and should be the highest priority.

Legend
January 29, 2025

All software companies drop features as the hardware, OS etc evolve that they no longer feel they can support dependably.   Happy to provide chapter and verse if anyone wants to hear them.  Just consider all the bugs that are reported after a new version of Premiere is released.  Adobe can't thoroughly test the program on all the possible variations of hardware, OS and other installed programs.   

 

Mode note: Edited for content.

Legend
January 29, 2025

This needs constant repeating.   Keeping the conversation here as civil as possible is very important and often seems to fall by the wayside.   And I truly appreciate the contributions that the adobe team makes here.    Not sure it's still the case, but in the days of fcp 1-7, there was NO overt participation by apple in the user forum.