> Von: Florian Boucault <florian.bouca...@canonical.com>
>Adjusting the font sizes alone is a bad idea and was not part of the plan. 
>Doing so will usually break UIs in unpredictable ways. The reliable way to 
>scale fonts up or down is to scale the entire UI up or down with the 
>environment variable GRID_UNIT_PX. We will have an option in the system 
>settings app to do so one day.
>


Well, it seems that Markus tried the scaling based on GRID_UNIT_PX, but it 
didn't actually increase the fonts in a way that solved his problem:


On 12-02-16 12:43, Markus Wimmer wrote:
> Hi list,
> I just resized the GRID on my aquaris4.5 as described. ( was 13px, 
> zoomed it up to 15px)
> It kinda works, but it seems to affect mostly the icon size, the fonts 
> seem to be slightly bigger, but not as large as necessesary. I will play 
> around with size, but a higher value will surely not help, because it 
> looks real ugly with 15px at all, so I have not much confidence in 
> getting a better result by a higher value. The phone shows large Icons 
> with still very small Fonts beneath, and a lot of white  space that 
> could be filled by a readeable Font ;-)
> 

I completely understand that the /real/ solution for this topic will be worked 
on by the designers and developers in good time. However, I was wondering 
whether there was another temporary hack that could be offered to Markus right 
now, seeing that the GRID_UNIT_PX hack did not do the trick for him.

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