Quick Font Size
Change the font size of the area you are working in, instead of zooming the whole window.
Install
Available on the VS Code Marketplace, or run ext install p3rception.quick-font-size in Quick Open (Cmd P / Ctrl P).
Supported Areas
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Editor |
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Agent Chat (Codex, Copilot, Claude) |
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Terminal |
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Debug Console |
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Markdown Preview |
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Keybindings
| Action |
macOS |
Windows |
Linux |
| Increase focused area |
Cmd + |
Ctrl + |
Ctrl + |
| Decrease focused area |
Cmd - |
Ctrl - |
Ctrl - |
| Reset focused area |
Cmd 0 |
Ctrl 0 |
Ctrl 0 |
| Increase all areas |
Cmd Option + |
Ctrl Shift Alt + |
Ctrl Alt + |
| Decrease all areas |
Cmd Option - |
Ctrl Shift Alt - |
Ctrl Alt - |
| Reset all areas |
Cmd Option 0 |
Ctrl Shift Alt 0 |
Ctrl Alt 0 |
Shift and numpad variants also work. To zoom the whole window, run View: Zoom In / View: Zoom Out.
Status bar
− [icon] 14 +
− / +: change the size of the area shown.- Click the size: choose which area to show.
- Hover the size: see every area's size, switch area, or reset one.
- Right-click the status bar to hide any of the three items.
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
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quickFontSize.step |
1 |
Size change per press. |
quickFontSize.minimum |
6 |
Smallest size. |
quickFontSize.maximum |
100 |
Largest size. |
Troubleshooting
Cmd + does nothing in the terminal: add this to your settings.
"terminal.integrated.commandsToSkipShell": ["quickFontSize.increase", "quickFontSize.decrease", "quickFontSize.reset"]
Chat does not change: chat.fontSize needs a recent VS Code version.
Technical details
Settings changed: editor.fontSize, chat.fontSize, terminal.integrated.fontSize, debug.console.fontSize, markdown.preview.fontSize. Anything outside the other areas counts as the editor.
Sizes are saved to your user settings. If a workspace overrides a size, the workspace value is changed instead.
Pixel values of editor.lineHeight and debug.console.lineHeight scale with the font. Multiplier values are left alone.
The status bar follows focus for editors, tabs and the terminal. For chat in the sidebar and the debug console, it switches on the first key press there, because VS Code reports no focus events for those views.
Windows uses Ctrl Shift Alt for all areas because Ctrl Alt 0 would catch AltGr 0, which types } on many keyboard layouts.
Commands (Command Palette, category Font Size): quickFontSize.increase, quickFontSize.decrease, quickFontSize.reset, quickFontSize.chooseArea. Each takes an optional area argument: editor, chat, terminal.integrated, debug.console, markdown.preview or * for all. Without it, the command acts on the area in the status bar.
{ "key": "cmd+alt+up", "command": "quickFontSize.increase", "args": { "area": "chat" } }
Runs locally, so it works in Remote-SSH, WSL and Dev Container windows without a remote install.
Area icons are Codicons by Microsoft, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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