How do I resize the tool panel

[iburden]

I'd like to make the tool panel larger, but so far I haven't found out how.  Can anyone help?

[MEB]

Hi iburden,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Go to menu View ▸ Customise Tools... and set the number of columns you want on bottom.

[iburden]

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.

[MEB]

Currently there's no way to resize the Tools toolbar or make the icons bigger, sorry.

[John Blackmore]

I have the same problem in wanting the icons to stand out more clearly.  Need for a development request for us older users!

[Carajp]

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)

[MEB]

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).

[John Blackmore]

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.....

[Carajp]

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.

[Nibor]

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.

[walt.farrell]

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.

[loukash]

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

!!!

[Nibor]

Thank you. Perhaps I should look for a Mac!

[Gerbil]

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

[cyberlizard]

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]

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
 

[Komatös]

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.

[Naízz]

sad to see its been since 2017 people asking for a resizeble toolbar with no change, i too would like bigger icons : /

[h3l3n-mk]

I went into preferences and changed the UI colouring from dark to light and that has made a big difference for me.