If you keep losing track of your Mac's tiny cursor, you can make it bigger by going to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and moving the slider to the right for Cursor size. (You'll find similar options for text and icons in Finder by opening a Finder window and clicking View in the menu bar and then choosing Show View Options.) 4. Right-click on the desktop, choose Show View Options and you'll get options for increasing Icon size and Text size. If your desktop icons are too small to be useful, you can increase their size along with the text of their descriptions. And to return to the normal zoom level, hit Command-Zero. You can then lower it by hitting Command-Minus. In many other apps, including both Chrome and Safari, you can increase text size (along with everything else) by hitting Command-Plus. Similarly, in the Messages app, go to Messages > Preferences > General and move the slider at the bottom for Text size to the right.
Having troubling reading emails? Well, in the Mail app, you can bump up the font size by opening the Mail app and going to Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors and clicking the Select button next to Message font and choosing a font size larger than the default of 12. If you don't have a Retina display, you can still make text bigger on an app-by-app basis. Choose one of the two options on the Larger Text side to make it easier to read what's on your display. Choose Scaled and, depending on the size of your Retina display, you'll have four or five options. On the Display tab, you'll see two options at the top of the window for Resolution: Default for display and Scaled. Open System Preferences and go to Displays. Retina displays offer what Apple calls "scaled resolutions" to bump up size of text and icons. That's never a great idea anyway because you lose sharpness in the bargain for larger, more legible letters. Is there some cache to clear or file to change? I need a way out of this ASAP! Thanks in advance for any help you can give.For Macs with Retina displays, you can't lower the native resolution to a specific resolution in order to increase the size of text and icons like you can on other laptops and displays. Is there some way to fix this without having to slog through the bug report system? I don’t trust myself to be knowledgable enough for that.
Neither the fonts that came with my system nor the ones bundled with LibreOffice are sufficient for my needs (I need weights of Source Sans Pro that are not bundled in LibreOffice Still and are inaccessible in Fresh regardless of whether I install the font family system-wide), so I really need all the help with this I can get. It seems to me that LibreOffice has some sort of preconception that “SOURCE SANS PRO HAS ONLY TEN WEIGHTS.” However, those two are still invisible in the character selection dialogue. UPDATE: I looked in the LibreOffice font directory and it turns out that LibreOffice 4.3.5 now bundles all weights of Source Sans Pro, including ExtraLight and ExtraLight Italic. This isn’t a problem (If I want fonts in my system, I’ll just install them!) but I think it may be related. Liberation Sans is also not present in Font Book. For example, it comes bundled with a few weights of Source Sans Pro (all twelve weights in LibreOffice Fresh 4.3.5), but Source Sans Pro is not visible or searchable in Font Book (Font Book is the OS X font manager). LibreOffice keeps its own bundled fonts separate from the system fonts. For example, currently Source Sans Pro Extralight and Extralight Italic are missing, but last time I installed the font, the missing ones were Light and Demibold Italic.
(Fresh - 4.3.5 - is always missing ExtraLight and ExtraLight Italic.) Which fonts are missing changes from one time I look at the character selection dialogue to the next! Only the number of missing fonts is constant.
Even weirder is the fact that the set of weights displayed in LibreOffice Still (4.2.8) is not always the same subset of the full list of weights. All variants work fine in every other app, so the font files are not corrupt and the problem is in LibreOffice. In LibreOffice, only 10 weights of Source Sans Pro display in the Character selection dialogue, and only 15 weights of Fira Sans.
Source Sans Pro has 12 weights (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, Light, Extra Light, etc…) and Fira Sans has 32 (absolutely awesome for a Free font.) In all apps except LibreOffice, they both behave wonderfully. I recently installed Source Sans Pro and Fira Sans on my Mac (OS X 10.10 Yosemite).