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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1614480"><p>I don't know the age or eye condition of Ivy99, but I'm a middle-aged guy and have no trouble at all seeing the menu bar font (which, I assure you as a graphic professional, is larger than 11pt). This is not to say I have eagle vision; I wear glasses for near-sightedness (which has gotten a lot worse over the last 25 years), without them everything more than say five feet away or so is blurry.</p><p></p><p>My monitor (20") is, per recommendations, a bit more than arm's length away. I have set the minimum font size in Safari to not display type any smaller than 11pt. I don't need to wear my glasses when I am at my desk in front of my monitor.</p><p></p><p>To the best of my knowledge, there is no safe way to increase the size of the menubar font. Other fonts in other places, no problem. But the menu bar is a specific design point that is intended to take up only that much of the screen space. The only option I know of is to lower the resolution of the display.</p><p></p><p>One day, perhaps, we will have resolution-independent font scaling and perhaps that will make a difference. Till then, there are some limits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1614480"] I don't know the age or eye condition of Ivy99, but I'm a middle-aged guy and have no trouble at all seeing the menu bar font (which, I assure you as a graphic professional, is larger than 11pt). This is not to say I have eagle vision; I wear glasses for near-sightedness (which has gotten a lot worse over the last 25 years), without them everything more than say five feet away or so is blurry. My monitor (20") is, per recommendations, a bit more than arm's length away. I have set the minimum font size in Safari to not display type any smaller than 11pt. I don't need to wear my glasses when I am at my desk in front of my monitor. To the best of my knowledge, there is no safe way to increase the size of the menubar font. Other fonts in other places, no problem. But the menu bar is a specific design point that is intended to take up only that much of the screen space. The only option I know of is to lower the resolution of the display. One day, perhaps, we will have resolution-independent font scaling and perhaps that will make a difference. Till then, there are some limits. [/QUOTE]
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