"More Size" Scaling vs. Font Size in Sonoma (13" MacBook Air)

[Flex77]

Hi Folks,

I'm considering moving to a 13.6" MBA from my old 13.3" MBP and I understand the "More Space" setting now equals a virtual resolution of 1710 x 1112.

I've always found most text a tad too small with the equivalent setting on my old MBP (1680 x 1050), but there is a new font size setting now in the Sonoma System Settings Accessibility tab. Has anyone been fooling around with it?

MacOS tradiditonally uses a lot of margin / padding / empty space (not sure what the right term is) for menu bars, browser tabs, sidebars and other interface elements, so I'm wondering if these new settings would allow for slightly larger font sizes across the board, while retaining the size of the interaction elements?

Basically, fine tuning your way to a more information efficient use of screen real estate, which was kind of tedious with older versions of MacOS.

 

[MacGizmo]

The feature works exactly as what you would think, making text larger in the few apps it works with. Unfortunately, the apps list is woefully short. More apps are being added with the next update of the OS (News, etc.). The other unfortunate part is that they don't let you customize it much – you're kinda stuck with small, medium, and large type adjustments.

 

[Flex77]

Thanks for reporting back! I can't try it for myself because I'm still on an older MacOS version with my current MBP. So it's on a per-app basis, I wasn't really sure about how it's implemented. The limited range of size options doesn't sound too promising though.. I might try to have a look and fiddle around with one in a store later this week.

 

[MacGizmo]

Here's a quick screenshot. You can adjust each of those apps individually, but the font sizes are "presets" – so in the Notes app for instance, you can't go from 17pts to 18pts... you can only jump from 17 to 24pts.

 

[Flex77]

Thanks for the screenshot, just saw it now. That makes it much clearer!