In screen font size

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Recently the “typeface” /font size got too small to read with my visual difficulties. There is no “size” choice in settings/appearance or anywhere else I can find. This was typed by my wife… Thanks!

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fwiw …

I’m running Brave under linux (Ubuntu 22.04, gnome) with a 4K monitor and periodically have this issue rear its ugly head upon a new update of the Brave software (ie, the Brave software update overwrites my customizations).

So far the following works for me re: increasing the size of tab/bookmark fonts:

sudo vi /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop

Find all lines that start with Exec= and append --force-device-scale-factor=1.4 on the end of each line, save the file, logout and login for settings to take hold.

NOTES:

  • you may need to adjust the value (1.4 in my case) to fit your needs.
  • for Windows users: I’m not currently running any Windows environments so I’m not sure where (if?) the equivalent of the brave-browser.desktop resides in Windows

In my case:

####
# old lines:

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --incognito

####
# new lines:

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U --force-device-scale-factor=1.4
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --force-device-scale-factor=1.4
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --incognito --force-device-scale-factor=1.4

Within Brave settings you can further tweak some font sizes by changing zoom factors. In my case:

open Brave Settings
search on 'zoom'
Page zoom is set to 110%
Customize fonts > Font size (slider) = 15
Customize fonts > Minimum font size (slider) = 14
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PLEASE do something about font size in tabs/menu!
Reverting Changes To brave-browser.desktop
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@CWF,
If you want to make it easier to view webpage content, you can use the Zoom feature in the main menu:

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Additionally, you can go to brave://settings/braveContent (you can also navigate there by going to Menu --> Settings --> Content --> Customize fonts) and go to Customize fonts to change the size of font’s in web pages.

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@Mattches

Neither of these suggestions, by themselves, addresses the issue of tab/bookmark fonts being too small on high resolution screens. For some reason these settings are not applied to tab/bookmark fonts.

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