Change Text Size in Windows 11 Tutorial

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You can change the text size that appears throughout Windows and your apps without having to change the overall DPI scaling level of your system.

Reference:

Change the size of text in Windows - Microsoft Support

Change the size of text in Windows using Settings or Magnifier.

support.microsoft.com

This tutorial will show you how to increase or decrease text size across the system for your account in Windows 11.

Changes to the text size are saved to the registry keys and values below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Accessibility
TextScaleFactor

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
UserPreferencesMask

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
AppliedDPI
BorderWidth
CaptionFont
CaptionHeight
CaptionWidth
IconFont
IconSpacing
IconVerticalSpacing
MenuFont
MenuHeight
MenuWidth
MessageFont
PaddedBorderWidth
ScrollHeight
ScrollWidth
Shell Icon Size
SmCaptionFont
SmCaptionHeight
SmCaptionWidth
StatusFont

Here's How

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Text size on the right side. (see screenshot below)

Open Text size settings

3 Adjust the Text size slider to the percentage you want, and click/tap on Apply. (see screenshot below)

The default text size is 100%.

The text size in the Text size preview box will change as you adjust the slider to see a preview of the text size before you apply it.

4 When finished, you can close Settings if you like.

That's it,
Shawn Brink

streetwolf

Member

Feb 28, 2022

#2

Have you noticed that Universal apps text is far larger than desktop apps when using the MTB slider? In order to get Universal apps more in line with desktop apps is too reduce the TextScaleFactor at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Accessibility. This key seems to affect Universal Apps only while desktop apps use the values in WindowMetrics.