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Even though I use it daily --and overall think it's an okay program--
I've had a variety of issues with Steam over the years, but the one
that's annoyed me the most has _after twenty plus years_ finally been
fixed.

With the recent update to the program, Valve has added accessibility
options that lets me, at long last, increase the size of the fonts.

Steam's tiny fonts have been an annoyance to me for years.
Windows10/11 alleviated the issue a bit, with its native ability to
increase interface text, but even so, the words on Steam were always a
bit small for me. Between aging eyes and ever-more pixel-dense
screens, bigger fonts were desperately desired. You could try using
unofficial themes and hacks, but even if you trusted them, they rarely
worked for long, as Valve was constantly tinkering with their own
program, and the modders just couldn't keep up.

But at long last, I can go into Steam's settings and crank up the text
size, making it so I can read my list of games from across the room.
As the topic says, final-fucking-ly!

(Now if only they'd let me change the color scheme. Although at least
the low contrast mode helps a little bit.)





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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 23:18 this Wednesday (GMT):

Even though I use it daily --and overall think it's an okay program--
I've had a variety of issues with Steam over the years, but the one
that's annoyed me the most has _after twenty plus years_ finally been
fixed.

With the recent update to the program, Valve has added accessibility
options that lets me, at long last, increase the size of the fonts.

Steam's tiny fonts have been an annoyance to me for years.
Windows10/11 alleviated the issue a bit, with its native ability to
increase interface text, but even so, the words on Steam were always a
bit small for me. Between aging eyes and ever-more pixel-dense
screens, bigger fonts were desperately desired. You could try using unofficial themes and hacks, but even if you trusted them, they rarely
worked for long, as Valve was constantly tinkering with their own
program, and the modders just couldn't keep up.

But at long last, I can go into Steam's settings and crank up the text
size, making it so I can read my list of games from across the room.
As the topic says, final-fucking-ly!

(Now if only they'd let me change the color scheme. Although at least
the low contrast mode helps a little bit.)

I could've sworn the older steam client had that feature. Feature
regression, anyone?
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:40:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <[email protected]> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 23:18 this Wednesday (GMT):

Even though I use it daily --and overall think it's an okay program--
I've had a variety of issues with Steam over the years, but the one
that's annoyed me the most has _after twenty plus years_ finally been
fixed.

With the recent update to the program, Valve has added accessibility
options that lets me, at long last, increase the size of the fonts.

Steam's tiny fonts have been an annoyance to me for years.
Windows10/11 alleviated the issue a bit, with its native ability to
increase interface text, but even so, the words on Steam were always a
bit small for me. Between aging eyes and ever-more pixel-dense
screens, bigger fonts were desperately desired. You could try using
unofficial themes and hacks, but even if you trusted them, they rarely
worked for long, as Valve was constantly tinkering with their own
program, and the modders just couldn't keep up.

But at long last, I can go into Steam's settings and crank up the text
size, making it so I can read my list of games from across the room.
As the topic says, final-fucking-ly!

(Now if only they'd let me change the color scheme. Although at least
the low contrast mode helps a little bit.)

I could've sworn the older steam client had that feature. Feature
regression, anyone?

I mean, I can't swear it hasn't ever offered that functionality in the
past. But I know if it did, it wasn't a feature that lasted all that
long, because it's something I've searched for semi-regularly because
Steam's tiny fonts have been annoying me for years

[Seriously. I wrote an article way here in csipga way back
in 2013 about things I disliked about the Steam client,
and yup..."no way to adjust text size" was one of the
things I bitched about. When I say this has been a
personal peeve for years, I mean it ;-)]

Every now and again I'd go through Steam settings looking for some
option to change the text size, which was then usually followed up
with a search of google and reddit and steam forums asking if I missed anything. I never found a solution, other than to download a
third-party skin.

So having an option in steam settings to make the text larger feels
like a major win.

In fairness, Epic's Game Store client still doesn't have that
functionality either. ;-) ;-)



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