Can I change font size in UI?

Hello to you all.

I'm brand new, just installed today. Please excuse my non technical questions in the near future.

Having installed DaVinci Resolve 17, I am having difficulty seeing and reading the interface. The titles are so small. I increase my window font for display but it does not affect Davinci.

Is there a way to make the fonts bigger? I have looked in the manual, but have not located anything.

Can someone help me please.

Thank you

Regards

Ross

I think the only think the only thing you can do is get a physically larger display.

I recommend 27" @ 1440 resolution as a bare minimum for Resolve. For 2160, I recommend at least a 32" display.

What size screen are you using, and what is its scaling set to?

Found it. Thanks to Modoud.

Works a treat
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Re: UI Font size of Davinci resolve
PostWed Mar 10, 2021 6:18 pm

I may have found one way to assist in sizing the UI Font sizing in DaVinci Resolve. I'm using a Surface Pro, Windows 10, and I'm NOT making movies, I wanted to use this software to create better YouTube posts on talks I give.

I downloaded and opened 17 and couldn't read a thing. WAY to small. Hunting around in Windows I found nothing that would fix it. However I tried the following steps and made the UI Menu readable (BTW: there are things in this that BMD needs to address):

1) Go to Resolve 17 Icon and right click.
2) Click On "Open file location"
3) Right Click on Icon in file location and select "Properties"
4) Click on "Compatibility" tab
:NOTE to BMD - I seen that "Compatibility mode ONLY has ios and windows 7 and 8 - Really? we're on 10.
5) Click on button "Change high DPI settings"
6) Click in box "Override high DPI scaling behavior.
7) In "Scaling performed by:" Select "System (Enhanced)"
8) Click "OK"
9) Click "Apply"
10) Click "OK"
11) Open DaVinci Resolve 17 and I could then read the menu items.

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I now have a font and view I can see easily.

Hope this helps anyone else.

Regards

Ross

Thanks, Modoud, for this solution.

1. My Dell laptop screen is 17," and I have a visual impairment so needed this support to use the program.

2. The dark grey text on darker grey menus is also a challenge for me.

Posting to bump this forward to BMD to investigate Menu themes.

Cheers, and thanks for the helpful software and resourceful community!

does this work in iOS?

I found how to do it in iOS, just select the display option in system preferences and select the display you want to adjust (I was using a OLED 48in LG) and hit scaled and used the one that best fit for my eyes.

there is no resolve for iOS (system for iphone and ipad)
but for macOS (system for desktop and laptop from apple)

; -)

And I can read it pretty well in MacOS with my ageing eyes if I choose the right resolution.

Hello!
I have the same problem, that the font is very small and I can't see it well.
I have a 25' screen, 2560 x 1440. I use Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon.
Davinci's version is the latest: 18.
In my case I don't have "Compatibility" tab nor "Change high DPI settings".

Did anyone find the solution for Linux?

Open Davinci Resolve and click on menu "Davinci Resolve" at the top left of your screen to the left of "File" menu and choose "Preferences". Now you should be in a box that has System and User tabs, choose the "User" tab. Select the UI Settings top menu and at the right side view go to the bottom and change the option in the "UI Display" menu to the size you prefer. You will have to restart Davinci Resolve to have the new settings apply. I have selected 200% as I have a 32 inch UHD 4k monitor.