Menu font size is too small to read

[glistok]

Describe the request

Can you either increase the menu font size in IDE 2.0 or make it a setting choice. It needs to be either about a size 20 or 24 or settable in that range.

Describe the current behavior

The menus are just too small to read.

Arduino IDE version

2

Operating system

Windows

Operating system version

11

Additional context

Arduino support has told me it cannot be done.

Issue checklist

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[VOC-LINK]

Listen, the tiny menu letters of Arduino IDE 1.8.19 are completely unreadable! They should have twice of their current size for today — for presently used screen resolutions — and actually there should be an option allowing resizing them at will! What does it mean „it cannot be done”? Hire better programmers if the current ones are unable to fix that, simple.
I don't want to sound rude, but I found the answer „it cannot be done” as both ridiculous and rude; it simply means „get lost, we don't care, buy better glasses or something”. Never been fond of Java, but even when creating programs in that atrocity, don't you tell me it's not possible to set the font size.

[per1234]

Hi @VOC-LINK. I guess you missed the news that Arduino IDE 1.x was replaced by a complete rewrite of the application 1.5 years ago:

https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/09/14/its-here-please-welcome-arduino-ide-2-0/

This is the issue tracker for that Arduino IDE 2.x codebase so reports of problems with Arduino IDE 1.8.19 are off topic here. Arduino IDE 1.8.19 is outdated and the Arduino IDE 1.x codebase is no longer maintained so we are not accepting any bug reports for that codebase. Please update to the modern Arduino IDE. You can get it from the download links listed here:

https://www.arduino.cc/en/software

If for some reason you can't or won't update, you can request assistance from the community with using the outdated version of Arduino IDE on Arduino Forum:

https://forum.arduino.cc/c/using-arduino/ide-1-x/18