# Accessibility/Usability - Alternative method to adjust base font size **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature archive\ **Tags:** ui-ux, mobile\ **Created:** [January 11, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108 "2023-01-11T23:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MarkS](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/marks/32/43302_2.png) [@MarkS](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/MarkS)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108/1 "2023-01-11T23:17:26Z")
For people with good eyesight, the default font sizes are fine, I’m sure, but the defaults in the Android app are small for some of us. Try changing the base font size in Android. You do this with a tiny slider, less than an inch wide. Your finger obscures most of the control. As you move it, the font of everything changes, scrolling your location off-screen. This makes it nearly impossible to simply pick a font-size. There’s an option to pinch-zoom, but it doesn’t seem to actually work. It would be really useful if the slider were replaced with a drop-down where you could pick the font-size, and the font-size was only applied with a separate button. I know this isn’t as sexy as a simple slider, but as-is the slider is nearly useless. If there is some alternate way (e.g. css) to change the base font, that would be great to know! Thanks! Note: I originally this in “Help”. I’ve deleted that post and copied it here, since this probably requires a change to existing code. ---
**Author:** ![CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/cawlinteffid/32/82899_2.png) [@CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/CawlinTeffid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108/2 "2023-01-12T00:45:05Z")
Moved to Mobile and added “[Feature]” to title because that’s the way for mobile feature requests here. Also removed “in Android” because the situation is similarly bad on iOS. Related: > [@\[Feature\] Relocate font size tooltip so we can read it](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/feature-relocate-font-size-tooltip-so-we-can-read-it/51938): > > Platform iOS Android Obsidian Mobile version: v1.4.1 When changing the font size in Settings \> Appearance, the current numeric size appears in tooltip under my finger, which is unhelpful. Please put it elsewhere — perhaps in a box to the right of the slider. Related > [@\[Feature\] Show current font size in settings](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/feature-show-current-font-size-in-settings/51937): > > Platform iOS Android Obsidian Mobile version: v1.4.1 In Settings \> Appearance \> Font size, the numeric font size is only shown while changing it. This makes it hard to return to the prior size, or to note the size for use in another vault. Please show the current numeric font size — perhaps in a box to the right of the slider. (An undo feature and/or a thing that shows the prior size while you’re adjusting it would be nice, too). Related Same request for desktop: [Show current font size…](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/show-current-font-size-in-settings/51939) ---
**Author:** ![MarkS](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/marks/32/43302_2.png) [@MarkS](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/MarkS)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108/3 "2023-01-13T03:50:33Z")
In one of those “D’oh!” moments, I realized that I could make the situation somewhat better by turning the device to landscape mode. It still needs to have its own font spinner, but at least it’s doable this way. ---
**Author:** ![htmljenn](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/htmljenn/32/21982_2.png) [@htmljenn](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/htmljenn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108/4 "2026-01-17T17:06:16Z")
I’d like to bump this as it’s 2026 and this is still a problem in iOS. It’s a problem for the “base font size” but also, more specifically for BASES in card mode. Bases, especially in card mode, are written in a very small font that is great for people with perfect eyesight, but not so great for the rest of us. It would be ideal if we could **pinch to zoom** as is the default on most mobile apps. But barring that, adding in a better way to enlarge the text would be useful. ---
**Author:** ![obsidian337](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/b19c9b/32.png) [@obsidian337](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/obsidian337)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108/5 "2026-02-19T13:45:07Z")
+1 I tried several css snippets to solve this small base font size on mobile with the help of AI. But, no success until now. ---
**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/accessibility-usability-alternative-method-to-adjust-base-font-size/52108/6 "2026-10-03T18:54:54Z")
> [@MarkS](#): > > Try changing the base font size in Android. You do this with a tiny slider, less than an inch wide. Your finger obscures most of the control. As you move it, the font of everything changes, scrolling your location off-screen. This makes it nearly impossible to simply pick a font-size. This was reworked in 1.13 and 1.14. Also in 1.14.2, commands/Hotkeys were added to change the font size