VSCode: change font size of menu bars?

Question

A potentially very stupid question, but I'm lost.
How do I change the font size of the menu bars (i.e. the labels "File", "Edit", "Selection", "View", ...) including the sidebar explorers, extension menus etc. (i.e. every text that is not the main coding window)?

I tried searching the user settings for "font" but I did not see any option specific for the menu font size.
I was also not able to find it via Googling.
The version of VSCode I currently have is 1.63.2 I am sure I missed something and apologies in advance for this simple-minded question.

Dieball

I don't think it's possible. You either need to change the scale of the entire gui, or use custom CSS. – Arquebus

Thank you! If anyone else is wondering: "CTRL and +" or "CTRL and -" are the standard shortcuts for changing GUI size. – Dieball

Answer 1

Press Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the command palette and run the View: Zoom In or View: Zoom Out command. The default keybindings for these commands are Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-.

There is also an extension called Zoom Bar which adds the overall zoom level to the status bar.

This will zoom your main coding windows as well, but you can work against that by adjusting your editor font size in your JSON settings:

"editor.fontSize": 14

Increase or decrease this depending on your zoom level.

Irreversible

This solved my specific issue I was having, but not quite the question above - as @Arquebus noted, there currently doesn't seem to be a way to change the menu font size independent of the main font size. – Dieball

You're right. I updated the answer accordingly. – Irreversible

Answer 2

I faced this exact issue while connecting to an external 4k monitor, the solution I could find relies actually on a windows setting rather than a VS one. Basically if from the desktop you check your display settings you can adjust as well the resolution and the "scale". In my case I set this to 150%, restarted visual studio and now the menu looks good windows display settings menu

Embosom

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Answer 3

For the title bar and context menu fonts size the solution is here: How to change the appearance of the VS Code context menu in Windows/Ubuntu? or https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/224515#issuecomment-2267264540

Middlesworth