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Enlarge status bar

#1

Sublime Text is remarkable about configuring nearly everything!

My eyes have trouble reading the status bar at the bottom. Is there any way to enlarge (taller) or bigger font?

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#2

Yes it can.

  1. Open Command Palette
  2. Invoke UI: Customize Theme

The easiest way to tweak font size is to just increase font_size_sm value. It may effect more elements than just the statusbar however.

// Documentation at https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/themes.html
{
	"variables":
	{
		"font_size_sm": 12,
	},
	"rules":
	[
	]
}

To directly address statusbar text you could tweak the related label’s rule

// Documentation at https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/themes.html
{
	"variables":
	{
	},
	"rules":
	[
		{
			"class": "label_control",
			"parents": [{"class": "status_bar"}],
			"font.size": 12,
		},
	]
}
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#3

You can also enlarge the whole UI using the "ui_scale" setting.

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#4

That works brilliantly; thank you!

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#5

@bschaaf I can’t seem to find where ui_scale is located. Would you be so kind as to point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

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#6

@deathaxe That works brilliantly; thank you!

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#7

It’s one of ST’s normal settings

  1. Call Preferences: Settings from command palette
  2. paste "ui_scale": 2.0, into the right view to scale UI by 2.
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#8

@deathaxe Perfect and simple solution, thank you!

I’ll look to familiarize myself with Preferences.sublime-settings before I waste bandwidth in the future. :thinking:

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