How to Increase Font Size in the xcode editor?

Question

Either this is a nightmare or it really does not seem to bother anyone that to increase font-size in xcode is a pain in the butt ... I googled and no one seems to have answer to this question ... please tell me its a nightmare.

Answer 1

figured it out - however it was not very intuitive.

First some Pain Points

1. When You try to change the font size directly using edit -> format -> font, nothing happens! - Not a good UX ... moreover why play dumb when you can tell user that they are using default or "System-owned" theme and they cannot change it? - Bad Design and more bad UX ... Why keep this option (Cmd t) alive, which by the way is most standard way to increase font size across most well behaved mac apps, if you do not want user to change the font this way?

2. In Xcode preferences, when you try to change the font size by clicking on "fonts and colors", thats when XCode gives a pop-up saying what needs to be done. Also making a duplicate and then changing the fonts and colors is a lot of work rather than giving a button that says "Restore to Defaults" if Apple is so worried about the user messing up the default settings!

The solution is that - you need to duplicate the theme and then modify the copy you just made and apply that copy - phew!

Answer 2

I'm new to OSX and XCode but I found a great tool called "TinkerTool" that lets you adjust systems settings like the default system fonts etc. It changes the font for everything, but it was simple to use.

Cheers! Happy coding...

Answer 3

When changing fonts in XCode from [Preferences] (after duplicating a template that matches colours close to what you want), you can select multiple entries and change the fonts all at once. Use [shift] to select a range or [cmd] to select multiple individual entries (e.g. you might select both 'comments' and 'strings' and change only their fonts).

Steve