Increasing game UI text size

[Simons Mith]

A new player just had a look at the game after a 10-yr gap since he last played it. First comment:

"Ok, I have wesnoth up and running. One problem I can see immediately is the readability. My eyes aren't what they were 10 years ago."

So how do you bump up the text size globally? I always assumed there was a way, and I'll be honest I'm getting close to needing it myself.
Some of the campaign story text in italics was just below what's comfortable...

[gnombat]

If you're running Wesnoth 1.15, you can manually edit your preferences file and add this line:

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font_scale=150

Note that this feature is somewhat buggy.

[Simons Mith]

Thank you, I'll pass that on.
And, I suppose, put in a 'UI refinement' feature request. I'll just pop it in the Ideas forum - not inclined to muck about with Github right now

[gnombat]

There used to be an actual control for this in the preferences dialog box, but it was removed just before version 1.14 was released (because of bugs in the feature).

[Simons Mith]

Oh well. I bet it'll come back when more of the devs start needing it too

Looking at the join dates for many of the active contributors here, I see a lot of them go back quite a long way

[LadyElena]

If you're running Wesnoth 1.15, you can manually edit your preferences file and add this line:

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font_scale=150

Note that this feature is somewhat buggy.

Preferences.cfg? And where in the file should I put it, or it does not matter?

[gnombat]

If you're running Wesnoth 1.15, you can manually edit your preferences file and add this line:

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font_scale=150

Note that this feature is somewhat buggy.

Preferences.cfg? And where in the file should I put it, or it does not matter?

Recent versions of Wesnoth have an option in the game now, under "Preferences" → "Advanced" → "Font size scale (experimental)", you don't need to manually edit the file any more.

The feature is still buggy, though.

[LadyElena]

Recent versions of Wesnoth have an option in the game now, under "Preferences" → "Advanced" → "Font size scale (experimental)", you don't need to manually edit the file any more.

The feature is still buggy, though.

Wow, thanks. It is indeed there. Will try that.

edit: It actually works to some degree. Too big font becomes cropped because the UI seems not adjusted for bigger resolutions (informational bars are too narrow) but 110 is more readable without cropping.

[Wedge009]

The better supported scaling is via Preferences -> Display -> Pixel scale multiplier. The disadvantage there is that, as of 1.18/1.19, only integral scaling is supported. Fractional scaling is logged in https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/8608

I think font-specific scaling still has issues with UI consistency.