[Feature Request] Change font size for normal text

[tnlanh99]

I see there is a config setting to change font size, chat.editor.fontSize, but it only changes the code, not the others. Can you add a config for this?

[masakinihirota]

I agree with you, please give me the option to change the font size, please.

[hroos]

Yes please, that would be great!

[jiywww]

I agree. While there is a way to change the font size of the chat by zooming the entire UI and adjusting back the editor/terminal font size, this will change the size of all UI elements, which is not ideal for me.

[glekner]

please add an option for a custom font size

[Mr-Zqr]

I agree. It would be a lot easier for me to read and chat with copilot if I can change the font bigger.

[roblourens]

If zooming doesn't work, then it sounds like you want the chat text to be larger than the rest of the UI text- can someone explain why they want that?

[Mr-Zqr]

If zooming doesn't work, then it sounds like you want the chat text to be larger than the rest of the UI text- can someone explain why they want that?

I'm not sure if it's just because my screen is small or what. I found it difficult to read the text generated by copilot chat at the current font size. The text is so small and dense that I need to be close to the screen to read smoothly. However, the same font size works just fine for the rest of the UI text. I think it's because most of the UI only contains a few words and doesn't has long texts that need to be read and used as frequently as copilot chat.

[roblourens]

The UI has quite a lot of text in it in some places. I think the solution for this is to zoom, I don't want to have separate font settings for all parts of the UI

[MangoMoe]

If zooming doesn't work, then it sounds like you want the chat text to be larger than the rest of the UI text- can someone explain why they want that?

For me its because UI text is a couple of words or a sentence max (that only has to be read every once in a while), while chat often produces paragraphs of text, which takes longer to read, and leads to more strain.

[masakinihirota]

It is easiest to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel.

Solutions such as a button to copy GitHub Copilot chat output results to the main editor

Presbyopia Difficulty seeing small text

"editor.mouseWheelZoom": true,
"editor.fontSize": 20,

[liam-k]

The UI has quite a lot of text in it in some places. I think the solution for this is to zoom, I don't want to have separate font settings for all parts of the UI
@roblourens

Sorry, but that is just a bad call from an accessibility perspective. Zooming also increases the size of buttons, panels, icons, padding, sometimes in ways that are pretty useless. (I’m generally not a fan of how VSCode handles that.)

And if you have quite bad eyes, there’s a point where you can’t zoom the whole window enough to see enough but still be productive, because there’s just a bunch of useless padding. The way people with bad eyes (including me) use VSCode is by zooming the app window a bit, but zooming the editor font A LOT. Usually, you just have to read few things in the UI (like the occasional file name if you don’t navigate via CMD+P). It’s fine to just get closer to the screen for a second there. But if you’re trying to read a long text or explanation by Copilot, it’s absolutely horrible.

I don’t know what you mean by "The UI has quite a lot of text in it in some places". Nowhere in the UI do you read what’s essentially an essay about a potentially complex topic for potentially several minutes. It’s entirely different.

Please reconsider this (or actually, implementing a UI font size across VSCode would be the best thing). It’s a really bad call ergonomically and in terms of accessibility. I can’t work like this – I’m back to copy pasting my code into ChatGPT. 🤷‍♂️

Attached is a screenshot of what I’m talking about.

[healingdrawing]

who is the genius person, with super eyes of eagle probably , who does not think about control the font size for copilot chat?

Please show to us the github link of this epic sorcerer , to say thanx for his great kindness and responsibility to people around.

[datanetai]

Yes i need that feature too. Like other comment mention that zooming make everything else big too including menu etc so it is not feasible for me. My vision is weak so i already zoom and i want change the font size as well.

[roblourens]

We do have this issue still open on the vscode repo: microsoft/vscode#519 And I think that would include this