[Suggestion] Increase UI Font size

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• 15 Jul, '25
  Elissa - Producer System

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  "Increase UI font size for easier visibility" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-07-13), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 06 Dec, '21
  Ignacio Abelenda Merged

  The default UI size is rather tiny in my opinion , specially if you play on a high dpi monitor or tv that is not close to you.
  
  I would like an slider to change the size of the user interface, from 1 to like 1,5. Just my suggestion.

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• 09 Dec, '21
  Mantauk

  let's put this on a slider if you implement this. I don't want the UI to be any bigger... smaller would be my preference

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• 13 Dec, '21
  JinglesJing Merged

  Option to change the size of the font used on the interface/chat, as it is supremely hard to read anything right now .___.

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• 15 Dec, '21
  Wind with Direction Merged

  1. High-contrast background for texts.
  The HUD currently has white text (e.g. time of day) over *Icarus*. I have to rotate the player camera to a shadowed area to read the HUD. Please provide an option to enable a dark background with very little or no transparency for HUD texts.
  (In fact, the way I was taught in school, modern games should have high-contrast text *by default*. Even the visually-not-impaired would like to have an easier time reading the HUD, don't they?)
  
  (Side note: in the desert area, the mission target icon in the (M)ap is a yellow-on-yellow.)
  
  2. Text size.
  Preferably, provide GUI scaling. GUI scaling is becoming the industry standard. Yes, it can be difficult to design. If an adaptive layout is impossible, then please make the font size bigger. I have a 4K monitor yet some texts in the tech tree are still difficult to make out.

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• 18 Dec, '21
  AE

  I need this because I play on a 4k TV from my bed with a wireless mouse/keyboard because I'm disabled and it's really hard to see the font. I often have to lean forward and/or squint; please implement some form of font size increase option, please.

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• 05 Jan, '22
  Xavier Bennett Merged

  Anyway we could get sizing options for the gui and the mouse size. Playing this on a 4k tv is hard to see the mouse

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• 01 Feb, '22
  Emily Mewens Merged

  I have terrible eyesight, and struggle considerably when it comes to reading some of the small text the game presents (like the text chat in multiplayer)
  Upscaling UI would be incredibly appreciated.

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• 01 Feb, '22
  Emily Mewens

  As i stated on another similar one. I have terrible eyesight, and this would help considerably in order to read some of the text thats presented.

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• 02 Feb, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "UI Upscaling" (suggested by Ignacio Abelenda on 2021-12-06), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Feb, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Visual Accessibility] High-contrast background and bigger/custom font size" (suggested by Wind with Direction on 2021-12-15), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Feb, '22
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Interface / Chat Text Size Option Slider" (suggested by JinglesJing on 2021-12-13), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 15 Aug, '23
  A.P. Merged

  please give the ability to change size of game and hud text for people with less then great vision. im unable to enjoy playing due to the writing being so tiny. other games allow a resize. thank you

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• 21 Aug, '23
  Siljin Merged

  A friend of mine wont play the game because he can't read the text on his screen. This suggestion is very calid and can create a barrier to entry for some.

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• 28 Jul, '24
  Malnaur Merged

  And simply changing the green for the x/y tags for recipe ingredients to a darker shade would be a huge readability improvement. Currently white on bright green is barely legible.

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• 30 Jul, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Suggestion] Ability to change size of text" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2023-08-15), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 30 Jul, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "GUI Sizing" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2022-01-05), including upvotes (4) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 12 Nov, '24
  Vyn

  How has this not been fixed?! I was gifted this game recently, but if I had bought it myself I would return it. If the dev's are unwilling to have their game be readable what's the point of buying their DLC's to "support" them when they're not even able to manage the basics. Even solo dev's create games where they have a adjustable UI or Text and even different fonts. To me that shows that those Devs care about their game enough to get their information across, so I'll financially support them. In this game, I can't even read the time of day in the game due to the font size & type, let alone any information in the Field Guide or the Mission Objectives. It's too blocky and not enough spacing between letters to make it easily readable. I can't believe so many people buy this game and just put up with it, it's like they just give up on their own worth. What's the point of making a game, then making everything unreadable?!

  

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• 13 Jul, '25
  Lilly Merged

  Font is way too small to read. Please give us an option to increase UI font size.

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• 21 Oct, '25
  Hefeplauze Merged

  A friend of mine who would like to play Icarus has vision problems. He can't read the font because it's too small.
  My question is, can you create an option in the settings that allows you to change the font size and color for visually impaired people?
  If you can include this in your edits, that would be great.

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• 23 Oct, '25
  Elissa - Producer System

  "font size and color change for the visually impaired" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-10-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 14 Nov, '25
  Eventide

  The Week 206 update brought:
  
  • Changed Incoming Weather Forecast font scale to be 2px bigger for better visibility
  
  Thank you for this - but please don't stop :) I'd like to see all of the other small text in the upper right notification area increased. The bottom pixel line of the Time, for example, appears clipped. I'm always having trouble with legibility of 6, 8, and 9.
  
  I attached an image from last year, contrasting the desired good and legible size needed on the left (SMPL3: HUNT) with the pixel-scaling-rounding-down error we're getting with time/biome/game version text.
  
  https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/1/3878218563602993370/

  

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• 20 Dec, '25
  Sparrow

  Screen sizes for gaming have become bigger and bigger in the last few years but font sizes have largely stayed the same which is also why playing older games where the font is tied to a certain size can be super annoying.
  I hope we can have an option added for bigger font sizes in the game. Thank you!

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• 15 May
  ashere

  I frequently find it very difficult to read the menu items. It would be nice if you could click the text or hover over it and it would pop up the text in a larger font. That would probably be easier than resizing all the menus etc. It could be turned on via a setting. I do content creation for this game and a lot of the time I can't read the entire text to my viewers...which may make it off putting to some who would try the game otherwise.

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