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> Von: Florian Boucault <florian.boucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Adjusting the font sizes alone is a bad idea and was not part of the plan. Doing so will usually break UIs in unpredictable ways. The reliable way to scale fonts up or down is to scale the entire UI up or down with the environment variable GRID_UNIT_PX. We will have an option in the system settings app to do so one day.
>


Well, it seems that Markus tried the scaling based on GRID_UNIT_PX, but it didn't actually increase the fonts in a way that solved his problem:


On 12-02-16 12:43, Markus Wimmer wrote:
> Hi list,
> I just resized the GRID on my aquaris4.5 as described. ( was 13px, 
> zoomed it up to 15px)
> It kinda works, but it seems to affect mostly the icon size, the fonts 
> seem to be slightly bigger, but not as large as necessesary. I will play 
> around with size, but a higher value will surely not help, because it 
> looks real ugly with 15px at all, so I have not much confidence in 
> getting a better result by a higher value. The phone shows large Icons 
> with still very small Fonts beneath, and a lot of white  space that 
> could be filled by a readeable Font ;-)
> 

I completely understand that the /real/ solution for this topic will be worked on by the designers and developers in good time. However, I was wondering whether there was another temporary hack that could be offered to Markus right now, seeing that the GRID_UNIT_PX hack did not do the trick for him.