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> Von: Markus Wimmer <mwimmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>An: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>Gesendet: 21:32 Mittwoch, 10.Februar 2016
>Betreff: [Ubuntu-phone] font size/ accessibility
> 
>
>Hello list,
>I really like my bq aquaris 4.5 ubuntu edition.
>After a year of user experience there are two annoying things. GPS 
>nearly never worked as it should, in 9 out of ten cases it is just 
>guessing my position by the ip address, so that "nearby" shows places 
>100 kilometers away from where I am. This behaviour is more funny than 
>hurting for me.
>
>Really annoying is the small font size in general. For those 40plussers 
>like me, who need glasses to read newspapers and books, the "smart" part 
>of the smartphone is unuseable without reading glasses.
>Is there any way to customize the fontsize?  ( by edititing 
>configuration files?)
>Markus Wimmer
>


Next to the suggestions to create a bug/feature request for a /proper/ solution, you can employ a workaround right now. There is a modification with a configuration file described here - it's in German:

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Baustelle/Ubuntu_Touch/Snippets/#Skalierung-der-Anzeige

Basically, you check with 


set | grep GRID 

What the value of the variable GRID_UNIT_PX is right now on your device, then you specify a new value by issuing that command

printf "start on starting dbus\nexec initctl set-env --global 
GRID_UNIT_PX='>> PUT A HIGHER VALUE THAN THE CURRENT SETTING HERE <<'\n" > ~/.config/upstart/gu.conf 


and restart your device. That should change the size of all UI elements. You might have to play around a bit to find a value that works for you.

You execute these command on your Ubuntu Touch device, so, e.g. in the Terminal App. Let me know whether that works for you!