Eclipse – How to change font size in Eclipse for ALL text editors

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I had to do a presentation yesterday, and as part of the presentation, I used Eclipse to show some code. Many of my coworkers in the room could not read the text and asked me to increase the size of the text for ALL files, not just Java files or XML files.

But it wasn't immediately obvious from the available options how to do this. I went to menu Window → Preferences and typed font in the search input. This filtered the options to General → Appearance → Colors and Fonts. From here, I could see an option to change the font in Java files, but I didn't know how to change the font globally.

I'm using Eclipse v4.3 Service Release 1 (Kepler) on Windows.

This is similar to Stack Overflow question How can I change font size in Eclipse for Java text editors?.

Best Answer

This is what we figured out, and this is also found in this answer and also this answer (I'll quote):

Go to Preferences → General → Appearance → Colors and Fonts, expand the "Basic" folder and select "Text Font" and change that to whatever size you like.

Pretty simple!

Here's what the dialog looks like -- click Edit

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