Change Font Size Mathematica

Notebooks contents can be displayed larger by adjusting the notebook magnification or the individual content s font size.
Change font size mathematica. The size of a font is typically taken to be the distance from the top of the highest character to the bottom of the lowest character. To change your display in windows 10 select start settings ease of access display. Hi thanks a lot for your suggestions. We all know that since time untold the mma frontend uses an incorrect dpi setting for rendering fonts.
To make only the text on your screen larger adjust the slider under make text bigger to make everything larger including images and apps choose an option from the drop down menu under make everything bigger. Here s how to change the size of text images and apps in windows 10. I have 10 2 version of mathematica. Both magnification and font size can be generally modified from their default values or just for the specific file or content.
I have tried the suggested command. The text is now in 18 point font. In mathematica stylesheets define the look and behavior of elements in a notebook. Absolutely maddening how do i change the default font so that each new notebook will open in my choice of font.
It will then use this name together with any settings you have specified for fontpostscriptname and fontnativename to try to locate an appropriate font on your particular. The wolfram language will combine settings for fontfamily fontweight fontslant fonttracking and sometimes fontsize to construct a complete name for the font you want. Select a new font size from the format size menu. Directive fontfamily arial red fontsize 20 without good result.
You can change the size of subsets of characters in a similar way. As a consequence while there must be literally hundreds of thousands of windows or mac applications that will render say a 12 point font as a 12 point font the mma frontend renders the font as a 9 point font. Simply select the characters and change their size in the format size menu. One can create a custom stylesheet to define the default style for new notebooks.
Thanks for the help. Navigate to the menu item format options inspector. A printer s point is approximately of an inch. Btw does anyone have an opinion as to which font is most legible between small and upper case and different from numbers meaning the number 1 is not confused with a small letter l or a capital i.
Fonts with the same nominal point size may not look the same size to the eye. Enlarging everything in all notebooks. In fact it is necessary to separate the font size of the frame and the font size of the legend but how.