Personalization Change Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard in Windows 11

Brink · Nov 19, 2021

This tutorial will show you how to change the key text size on the touch keyboard for your account in Windows 11.

Windows 11 includes a touch keyboard you can click/tap on to enter text. This can be handy if you have a PC with a touchscreen without a physical keyboard.

You can change the key text size to be small (default), medium, or large on the touch keyboard.

Contents

Option One: Change Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard in Settings
Option Two: Change Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard using REG file

EXAMPLE: Small, medium, and large key text size on touch keyboard

Option One

Change Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard in Settings

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Touch keyboard or Text input on the right side. (see screenshots below)

Open Text input settings

3 Under Keyboard theme, select Small (default), Medium, or Large in the Key text size drop menu for what you want. (see screenshots below)

In Windows 11 build 22504 and higher, you will need to click/tap on Touch keyboard to expand it open first.

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

Option Two

Change Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard using REG file

1 Do step 2 (small), step 3 (medium), or step 4 (large) below for what you want.

2 Use Small Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard

This is the default setting

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Small_key_text_size_on_touch_keyboard.reg

Download

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7]
"KeyLabelSize"=dword:00000000

3 Use Medium Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Medium_key_text_size_on_touch_keyboard.reg

Download

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7]
"KeyLabelSize"=dword:00000001

4 Use Large Key Text Size on Touch Keyboard

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Large_key_text_size_on_touch_keyboard.reg

Download

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7]
"KeyLabelSize"=dword:00000002

5 Save the REG file to your desktop.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded REG file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 You can now delete the downloaded REG file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn Brink