If you are not happy with the size of the font that you see in the macOS terminal text or you are presenting something on your MacBook to a classroom or your office team and the terminal font size looks too small, you can change it by following the below steps,
![Change font size macOS Terminal Text Change font size macOS Terminal Text](https://code2care.org/howto/increase-font-size-macos-terminal-text/images/Change font size macOS Terminal Text.png)
Change font size macOS Terminal Text
- Open Terminal Application,
- Now from the Menu select: Terminal -> Preferences...
- Now under Text section, click on change... button under Font section,
- You will see size option where you can change the font size (default was 9)
- After the change - close the Fonts window,
- Now close the Profiles window,
- You would need to restart your terminal to reflect the font size change.
Keyboard Shortcut to increase/decrease terminal font size
There is an alternate way in which you can either increase or decrease the size of the terminal text i.e. by using keyboard shortcuts,
Command and - keys: To decrease font size
Command and + keys: To increase font size
![Change macOS Terminal Font Size using keyboard shortcuts Change macOS Terminal Font Size using keyboard shortcuts](https://code2care.org/howto/increase-font-size-macos-terminal-text/images/Change macOS Terminal Font Size using keyboard shortcuts.gif)
Change macOS Terminal Font Size using keyboard shortcuts
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