Simple ways to make text easier to read on a mac

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If your eyes are tired at the end of the day, these visual tweaks could be the solution

System Preferences

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**Customise** **the** **accessibility** **settings** **and** **font** **smoothing** **options** to **make** **text** **easier** to **read…**

Retina displays have made a big difference to the quality of the screen display on Macs and today’s high-resolution screens are much better than a few years ago. However, the setup may not be perfect for your eyes, especially if your vision is not perfect. There are many settings in macOS and apps that enable you to make text easier to read. Customise them to help with sore eyes or problems you may have, or simply to make the display look the way you prefer. You can set preferred fonts and sizes, increase or decrease contrast, choose light and dark themes, and choose the degree of font smoothing used for text.

Better text display

Make text easier on the eye

Step-by-step Customise text display settings for Macs

1 Avoid small fonts

Open Safari, click the Safari menu and select ‘Preferences’. Select the ‘Advanced’ tab and tick ‘Never use font sizes smaller than’. Set a minimum size, such as 10.

2 Zoom web pages

If you use a high-res screen with your Mac, the text on web pages may seem small. Select the ‘Websites’ tab and set the default page zoom to 115%.

3 Set the appearance

Open System Preferences>General and try both the light and dark appearance for the macOS user interface. you may find text easier to read with one theme than the other.

4 Accessibility display

Select System Preferences>Accessibility >Display. Tick ‘Increase contrast’ and drag the display contrast slider to the right. It works best with the dark macOS theme.