How To Change The Font Size Of Text On Chrome Tabs In Windows 10/11

When you open the Chrome browser do you see the font of the text in Chrome’s tab to be small? Sometimes the tab texts are so small that it is not readable. This might be because of the incompatibility issues of the Chrome version, changes in the windows settings, etc. Try updating Chrome to its latest version and check if the issue is solved else do not worry, in this article we have a few simple tips that can be applied in order to solve the issue. Let us start!

Method 1 – Use The Make Text Size Bigger Option From Windows Setting

 

Step 1 – Open windows settings using Windows + I keys together

Step 2 – Click on ease of access

 

Ease Access



 

Alternatively, you can type make text size bigger in the windows search bar, and click on the same from the search result to open it



 

Make Text Bigger

 

Step 3 – On the display page, under make text bigger drag the slider towards the right to increase the size. You can see the sample text varying in size and adjust the slider

 

Slider

 

Step 4 – To save the changes click on apply button. Now open Chrome and check if the font is changed.

 

Method 2 – Use Custom Scaling To Change The Font Size

 

Step 1 – Open the windows settings using Windows + I keys together

Step 2 – Click on system. Display page will open

 

System

 

Step 3 – Scroll down at the right and click on advanced scaling settings

 

Advanced Settings

 

Step 4 – Under the custom scaling option, type numbers between 100 – 500

 

Custom Scaling

 

Step 5 – To save the changes click on apply button

Step 6 – It may ask you to sign out to apply the changes. Then go to the chrome at check if the font size has been modified accordingly.

 

Method 3 – Use The Customize Font Option To Change The Font Size

 

Step 1 – Open the chrome browser and click on the three dots at the top right corner

Step 2 – From the appeared list click on settings

 

Settings

 

Step 3 – Then in the opened window, at the left click on appearance

 

Appearance

 

Step 4 – There appears the font size option at the right. In its dropdown select the necessary font size required by you like very small, small, medium, large, very large

 

 

Font Size

 

Step 5 – Also click on customize fonts

 

Customize Fonts

 

Step 6 – You can move the font size slider from tiny till huge as per your requirement

 

Fontsize

 

Step 7 – And there are various other option that you can choose as well. Then see if the font size in Chrome tab has changed.

 

Method 4 – Run Chrome In Compatibilty Mode

 

Step 1 – Right click on the Chrome icon from your desktop or wherever it is placed in your computer

Step 2 – Then click on properties

 

Properties

 



Step 3 – Go to the compatibility tab

Step 4 – Under compatibilty mode section, enable Run this program in compatibility for option (a tick mark should be present in the checkbox)

Step 5 – From its dropdown select the previous Windows version from the list

 

Compatibility

 

Step 6 – To save the changes click on apply and ok. Now check if the issue is solved.

 

Method 5 – Use Zoom In And Zoom Out Option

 

Though zoom options enlarge the font size but sometimes the Chrome tab text remains the same but anyways give it a try and check if the texts are readable.

Try to zoom in and out and check if the font size suits you. Try the following steps

Press the Ctrl + ‘+’ keys together from the keyboard to increase the size of the text on the browser page

Press the Ctrl + Shift + ‘+’ keys together to increase the tab or the menu size

To decrease the size you can use Ctrl + ‘-‘ and Ctrl + Shift + ‘-‘ respectively.

 

That’s it! I hope the above provided information is helpful and easy to follow. Let us know which method worked for you. Thank you and happy reading!!