iburden Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 I'd like to make the tool panel larger, but so far I haven't found out how. Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 13, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2017 Hi iburden, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Go to menu View ▸ Customise Tools... and set the number of columns you want on bottom. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iburden Posted February 13, 2017 Author Share Posted February 13, 2017 Thanks for the help, but that is not what I mean. I want to make the view larger. The icons are so small I can not see them easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 13, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2017 Currently there's no way to resize the Tools toolbar or make the icons bigger, sorry. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blackmore Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 I have the same problem in wanting the icons to stand out more clearly. Need for a development request for us older users! JohnM and ProbablePossible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carajp Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 I second this. The interface is hard on older eyes and it's easy to pick the wrong tool when they're so tiny. (2440 27in screen) loukash and ProbablePossible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted December 17, 2020 Hi @Carajp, Welcome to Affinity Forums Are you using a Mac or PC? If you are on a Mac, are you using a scaled resolution (macOS System Preferences, Displays section)? If you have a Retina display using it at the default resolution for the display should render the icons/interface at a reasonable size (i'm using a 28 inch screen at 3840x2160) comparable to other design/photo editing apps. On PC you can change the size/scale of the layout/interface (for all apps, so system wise) in the Display Preferences (Scale and Layout section, first dropdown). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blackmore Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 But I don't want to rescale ALL apps just the icons in Affinity. Suggest this request is considered as part of the next upgrade..... ProbablePossible 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carajp Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Thanks Meb. I'm on Windows. I can scale the UI globally (and have) to a size that fits almost everything I do. So I don't really want to change that scaling for one program I use among many. I have got reasonably used to it, and Ctrl-Z is a lifesaver of course, but I do find it quite hard to pick out the toolbar icons. If I'm mousing, I think I select the Selection brush instead of the ordinary brush 9 times out of 10, just by way of an example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 I am using Windows 10 and would like to see both the tool bar icons and the scroll bar width adjustable as accessibility functions, if that is possible. cyberlizard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. The posts above describe the only capability; you need to tell Windows to scale the display for all applications. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Workaround on Mac: System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom > Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom You can set a custom combo by pressing the modifiers you want and clicking into the field to replace the default modifier. You can also switch between Zoom Style: Full Screen and Picture-in-picture. The latter works as a loupe. Using it all the time. And yes: On 12/14/2020 at 11:59 PM, Carajp said: The interface is hard on older eyes and it's easy to pick the wrong tool when they're so tiny !!! Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Thank you. Perhaps I should look for a Mac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerbil Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) Hello, we just bought 800 Affinity suite licenses for my school, and our students and staff uniformly agree some of the UI elements are too small, especially on MacBook Air or 4k displays in full screen. All of our students have MacBook Airs, and in our Design labs (where I teach), we have 4k docking stations. I'm a former Apple employee and a hardcore Mac power user, and I agree with the people above, some things like the "no color" for stroke in the color pallet is insanely small and hard to click on. Why can't we resize the app's UI? Edited May 14, 2021 by Gerbil ProbablePossible 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberlizard Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 I could not agree more with some of these comments. Having the ability to resize icons is a must. Even on a 1080 display, the spin controls such as those used to increase or decrease the number of columns for example are already tiny. I can only imagine how ludicrously small they must appear on a 4K monitor. ProbablePossible 1 Quote Base Unit: Standard model M1 Mac Mini - until such time as I can afford a new or used Studio - albeit running its OS from an external NVMe (2TB). Laptop: 2015 Macbook Pro Retina - i7, 16GB, 2TB SSD Server: Mac Mini 2014 - i5, 16GB, 2TB SSD Workshop: HP G4 running as a Hackintosh until more funds can be found to upgrade it. Software: Affinity Suite (ver. 2), Office 365, Fusion360, OnShape, Carbide Create, Cura, Inkscape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProbablePossible Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Agreed-- the icons are uncomfortably small for my aging eyes and I need to be able to enlarge them. On 12/17/2020 at 4:03 AM, MEB said: Hi @Carajp, Welcome to Affinity Forums Are you using a Mac or PC? If you are on a Mac, are you using a scaled resolution (macOS System Preferences, Displays section)? If you have a Retina display using it at the default resolution for the display should render the icons/interface at a reasonable size (i'm using a 28 inch screen at 3840x2160) comparable to other design/photo editing apps. On PC you can change the size/scale of the layout/interface (for all apps, so system wise) in the Display Preferences (Scale and Layout section, first dropdown). I don't want to resize all of my apps. I only want to resize the icons in Affinity. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 At almost 60, I no longer have the best eyesight either. On my 27" 2K monitor, the symbols are also very small, so maybe you should think about buying glasses. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naízz Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 sad to see its been since 2017 people asking for a resizeble toolbar with no change, i too would like bigger icons : / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3l3n-mk Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 I went into preferences and changed the UI colouring from dark to light and that has made a big difference for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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