[ENHANCEMENT] Text size setting for Roo UI (Small/Medium/Large, no VS Code zoom)

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Problem / Value

Roo's UI text appears smaller than the code editor. On high-DPI displays and small monitors it's hard to read. The only current workaround is editing a minified CSS file in user settings, which is tedious and not user-friendly. A built-in text size setting would improve readability and accessibility without zooming the entire VS Code window.

Context

Affects users on high-DPI displays, small monitors, or those who prefer larger text. Happens across Roo Code panels during everyday use. Desired behavior: a setting to choose Small, Medium, or Large text size that applies only to Roo Code's UI and leaves the editor and VS Code zoom unchanged.

Constraints/Preferences

Scope to Roo Code's UI only; do not change VS Code window zoom or editor font size.
Keep the default consistent with current appearance.
Place the new setting under an Interface settings section.

feat: add interface text size setting for Roo UI

@roomote

as per Bruno in #8457 (comment)

I agree we need to be more consistent in using font-size as a basis for scale everywhere, but this already improves things a lot.

My only 3 comments are:

Selfishly, as the designer on the team, I'd love if we could scope this to only the chat view, because it can be very challenging to make the UI look good across sizes in specific elements like the auto-approve dropdown, settings, onboarding, etc. Plus, as you said, users can simply increase/decrease the global VSCode font size to target the UI in conjunction with the chat view area. So if you don't mind, I'd leave it to ChatView for now and expand later if needed.

Since we now have a UI Settings section, I think this deserves to go there. The display should probably be a text input with the value of the multipler (maybe with sensible bounds, like min 0.5 and max 2), plus a button to reset back to 1.

Less important, but I missed being able to use a command to also reset the size to the default, along with increase/decrease

This is create work in any case, I really appreciate it.

@roomote please implement this in a new PR

Closing as stale - the linked Linear issue has been archived/completed.

Hi, do I understand correctly that this feature is still work in progress?

feat(ui): add chat font size multiplier setting

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hannesrudolph commented on Jan 6, 2026

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