# Tag Panel: configurable font size
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 7, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303 "2016-10-07T07:21:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@email.simonblake](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/email.simonblake)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/1 "2016-10-07T07:21:55Z")
First, many, many thanks for MP3TAG. It is an amazingly powerful program and I use it frequently. But that may change however, as I am having great difficulty using it on my 22" WS HD monitor. The Tag Panel fonts are just too small.
For the past 3 years I have been wearing glasses for reading (it's an age thing), and even with them on I have to lean right across my desk and get up close and personal with the monitor to see the tiny characters in the tag fields. It's getting to the point for me that the app is becoming unusable because of the effort straining to see some of the field contents.
Please, please can you add an option to increase the tag panel font size? It's really doing my eyes in.
Thankyou.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/2 "2016-10-07T07:43:03Z")
see e.g. here:
[Consistently ignored question](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/14586/7)
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### Author:  [@email.simonblake](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/email.simonblake)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/3 "2016-10-07T08:26:36Z")
Hmm, missed that when I searched the forums. Thanks for the link. So not just me having troubles then. I really hope that this 'feature' is implemented sooner rather than later.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/4 "2016-10-07T08:47:29Z")
> [@ManGoShutKneeHokay](#):
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> For the past 3 years I have been wearing glasses for reading (it's an age thing), and even with them on I have to lean right across my desk and get up close and personal with the monitor to see the tiny characters in the tag fields.
Well, I've got a 27" monitor with a resoluition of 2560x1440 and I love it for its sharpness.
But I need to scale it in windows to 125 % for all applications, leaving the resolution untouched.
Have you tried to scale generally in windows for all applications?
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### Author:  [@email.simonblake](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/email.simonblake)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/5 "2016-10-08T14:10:43Z")
> [@poster](#):
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> Well, I've got a 27" monitor with a resoluition of 2560x1440 and I love it for its sharpness.
> But I need to scale it in windows to 125 % for all applications, leaving the resolution untouched.
> Have you tried to scale generally in windows for all applications?
Hello there
Yes, I have. I didn't like the emboldened and 'smudged' fonts look and some icons were blurred after being scaled as well, but to be honest, I think you're right, and I'll have to resort to scaling as it is preferable to making out microscopic fonts in the tag panel. Admittedly I use other apps with exactly the same issue as MP3TAG.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/6 "2016-10-10T21:09:03Z")
> [@ManGoShutKneeHokay](#):
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> Please, please can you add an option to increase the tag panel font size? It's really doing my eyes in.
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> Thankyou.
Control Panel \> Appearance and Personalization \> Personalization \> Window Color \> Advanced Appearance Settings \> Item \> Message Box \> Font
This "Message Box" Item is repsonsible for how he font in Mp3tag looks
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/7 "2021-02-04T22:46:07Z")
Unfortunately on Widows 10 this is not possible
Because all the user an do in this operating system is to change a global setting located at
**Settings \> System \> Display \> Scale and layouts**
from normal [100%] to various fixed degrees of larger [125%, 150%, etc.]
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And so: would not this fact constitute for a legit request for a new feature?
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/8 "2021-02-05T05:52:24Z")
@Zerow
I don't need any individual scaling and did not test this. But as we know you are always ready to tweak and mess up your system 😉, you can try this (without any warranties of me):
> **[Change Message Box Text Size in Windows 10 Creators Update](https://winaero.com/message-boxes-text-size-windows-10-1703/)**
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> Here is how to change message box text size and font in Windows 10 Creators Update despite the classic Display settings applet removed.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/9 "2021-02-07T22:24:11Z")
> [@poster](#):
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> as we know you are always ready to tweak and mess up your system 😉
Good memory. Good for you
> [@poster](#):
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> [Change Message Box Text Size in Windows 10 Creators Update](https://winaero.com/message-boxes-text-size-windows-10-1703/)
Yes. Apparently the free of charge WinaeroTweaker allows at
**Advanced Appearance Settings \> Message Font \> Change font... \> Size:**
to easily change that now unavailable option [although a reset of the system is required to apply it]. **This governs the size of letters in the Tag Panel of Mp3tag** - and also for example also the size in Mozilla Thunderbird of letters in its Local folders
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This option however does not change the size of file list in the main window of Mp3tag. One my assume now that this size would be govern by the size font in Windows Explorer used for listing items in its main window; and that it would be also available through WinaeroTweaker. Wrong; and wrong
The **size of font for filelist in main window of Mp3tag** is intertwined with the size of... text for desktop icons. And as such it is available in WinaeroTweaker at
**Advanced Appearance Settings \> Icons \> Change icons font \> Change font... \> Size:**
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And so, at least for me, using WinaeroTweaker to increase size in two elements of Mp3tag is a workaround - because it also affects other software
It works but the user has to be aware of possible [unwanted] changes
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/10 "2021-02-07T22:28:03Z")
And just for further / future reference
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Those options are also available it Registry at
**HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics**
But the problem is that there are encoded
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[I tried decoding them with some Hex-Editor and HxD but I am just not a programmer]
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-configurable-font-size/18303/11 "2021-02-07T23:07:36Z")
> [@Zerow](#):
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> But the problem is that there are encoded
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> [I tried decoding them with some Hex-Editor and HxD but I am just not a programmer]
[Deskmodder](https://www.deskmodder.de/wiki/index.php/WindowMetrics_-_Iconabstand,_Scrollbarbreite,_Schriftarten_%C3%A4ndern)
and
[winfaq.de](http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/Content/tip0000/onlinefaq.php?h=tip0006.htm)