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How to increase font size in OS X?

I use a 17" Macbook Pro. Generally the OS's font is okay. But when you are used to coding with fontsize 12, it becomes really small on my macbook. I use fontsize 13-14. It's big and looks really smooth.

While many apps provide zoom for content they present, I am yet to find an app that allows increasing font size in its UI elements (Though I think OSX should solve this problem in some standard way, not individual apps).

Regarding screen size - the fonts are OK on my MBP too, but 27" is another story - you have to sit farther from such a huge screen. iCal and many other apps on my parents' iMac 24" are pretty much unusable because of tiny font sizes.

Resolution independence is coming with OS 10.5...

You are right to point out that on a 27" screen, you would have to sit farther away.

I am still on 10.4 though. One thing that bugs me is the size of the mouse cursor. It is too small for me -- I increase it and it all becomes jagged and ugly.

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