Feature request: in-app font/text size setting for accessibility (low vision)
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Activity 4 comments · opened Jul 17, 2026
Problem
Claude Code has no in-app setting to change the font/text size. For users with low vision this is a real accessibility barrier.
The only current workarounds are:
- OS-level display scaling (Windows) — but this enlarges everything across the whole operating system, which breaks layouts and creates usability problems in every other program. It's not an acceptable trade when Claude Code is the only app that needs bigger text.
- App zoom shortcuts (Ctrl +/-) — a temporary/coarse workaround, not a real, discoverable, persistent setting, and not obviously tied to accessibility.
I'm a Claude Code user with a visual impairment (keratoconus and strabismus). My only readability problem is Claude Code itself — so a text-size control scoped to Claude Code alone would solve it without any of the OS-wide side effects.
Requested feature
A persistent, in-app font-size / text-size setting for Claude Code:
- A configurable text size (a point/size value or a text-size slider) in the app settings or
settings.json. - Persists across restarts.
- Independent of OS display scaling.
- Scoped to Claude Code only.
Why it matters
This would make Claude Code meaningfully more usable for people with low vision, and brings it in line with basic accessibility expectations for text resizing. Thank you for considering it.
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Adding my personal weight to this as the person who requested it.
I have low vision (keratoconus and strabismus). Claude Code is a tool I use constantly, and right now the text is genuinely hard for me to read.
The only workaround anyone can offer is Windows display scaling — but that:
Claude Code is the only thing I need larger.
What would fix it
A simple in-app text-size setting that is:
This would remove a real accessibility barrier for me and for anyone else using Claude Code with a visual impairment. It's also a recognized accessibility standard — WCAG 1.4.4, "Resize Text". Please prioritize it.
Adding my personal weight to this as the person who requested it.
I have low vision (keratoconus and strabismus). Claude Code is a tool I use constantly, and right now the text is genuinely hard for me to read.
The only workaround anyone can offer is Windows display scaling — but that:
Claude Code is the only thing I need larger.
What would fix it
A simple in-app text-size setting that is:
This would remove a real accessibility barrier for me and for anyone else using Claude Code with a visual impairment. It's also a recognized accessibility standard — WCAG 1.4.4, "Resize Text". Please prioritize it.
Adding my voice to this — I'm not a programmer, I'm an integrative therapist in Brazil, and I use Claude Code every day to build small tools for my own practice. I have vision problems and wear glasses, and the default text size makes long sessions genuinely tiring to read.
I'd add two things to the original request: I'd love this to be a proper reading mode with a few steps (something like five levels of size, remembered across sessions), and I'd like it on the mobile app too, not just desktop — that's often when my eyes are most tired.
This isn't only about me. My wife lost one eye and has low vision in the other, and she recently asked me to help her organize her own computer. Requests like this one aren't a nice-to-have — for people like her, it's the difference between being able to use a tool at all and giving up on it.
Thank you for reading this, and for considering it.