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Best Pref/Interface for visually impaired

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I've looked at the IF preferences and worry that I may change too many options, or get the wrong combinations and end up forgetting what I changed. yada yada

Can someone suggest a set of changes to the IF that will make the text very WHITE and the background very Black as well as a way to make the text a bit larger?

I have to lean in to see these dropdown lists

btw this shot looks larger than the text in the actual app.

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Here's how Lr interface text size compares .

I thought I would try changing the system resolution but it's only in Lr where the interface text is small


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Mike, have you tried the Font Size pop-up in Preferences > Interface?
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
Mike, have you tried the Font Size pop-up in Preferences > Interface?
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Yes I have but that option doesn't seem to effect the text in the panels. I have it set to Medium at this point
 
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mikecox said:
Yes I have but that option doesn't seem to effect the text in the panels. I have it set to Medium at this point
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Try the larger sizes, e.g. 150% or 200%. On my Windows 10, there's very little difference between Small and Medium but much larger differences with the larger sizes. I've attached screenshots below -- you'll have to download them to see them at their true sizes.

Note that the size of the menu bar isn't controlled by Preferences > Font Size but rather Windows' Settings > System > Display > Scale And Layout. Also note that LR has a bunch of glitches the larger you set its Font Size, and Adobe has never been concerned enough to fix them.

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I never went to 150% because I just knew it would be overkill...it isn't! Also thanks for the OS settings path. And I get it, regards the glitch but messing with fonts often leads to presentation issues; across all apps and browsers, so I'm careful about overdoing it.

Thanks for your help. You always come to the rescue
 
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johnrellis said:
Try the larger sizes, e.g. 150% or 200%. On my Windows 10, there's very little difference between Small and Medium but much larger differences with the larger sizes. I've attached screenshots below -- you'll have to download them to see them at their true sizes.

Note that the size of the menu bar isn't controlled by Preferences > Font Size but rather Windows' Settings > System > Display > Scale And Layout. Also note that LR has a bunch of glitches the larger you set its Font Size, and Adobe has never been concerned enough to fix them.

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I have a new monitor with a 2569x1440 display, now the text size in the panels is really small, I 100% agree there is no difference between small and medium and the large is just too big. Has this been reported as a bug? How can I report it to Adobe? Maybe if lots of folks report, they may fix it... :)
 
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Both Mac and Windows have similar behavior, with very small differences between the two smallest font sizes. Adobe is more likely to call this an Idea (feature request) than a Bug, because it's been behaving like this for years, because a product manager almost certainly reviewed the behavior when it was first implemented, and because of management incentives to reduce the number of open bugs. But it doesn't really matter what they call it, because practically, Adobe won't address the issue unless many users complain. I'm currently getting all the various threads about this in the Adobe forum merged into one Idea, to increase the number of votes and visibility of the issue.
 
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