You fix that shit in your OS. Apps don't get to define font sizes.

ok

Kind of ablist. People have individual needs. You can accommodate those needs without trying to make every app do every job.

That, and apps frequently do all sorts of things they "don't get to" do.

That's a bad thing, not a good thing.

Cool. It's also the reality we exist in. I also want to be able to change my settings on a per app basis. Some stuff I use up close to my screen and am fine with small font. Some stuff I use while leaning back in my chair with my feet up on my desk. I don't want to go control panel diving.

As someone whose visual acuity is fading as I age, I rely a lot on being able to configure my system to make the default font big enough that I can comfortably read it. I HATE it when some app decides to override my system settings & use an 8 point font on my 4K screen.

And I'm getting that we're all geeks. My mother isn't. Fine tuning the OS would be completely beyond her.

Indeed. And again, in a text editor no less. Yes Notepad is super basic but not being able to set the font there? That'd be absurd. Hell sometimes I use Notepad to leave a note for someone else at work and I'll set the font to max and write in all caps so they don't miss it

So, do you remember WordPad & NotePad? The entire point of NotePad was that it was pure ASCII, with no formatting at all, whereas WordPad was the same, but with RTF (Rich Text Formatting) that included fonts & sizes.

Yes, I do remember it. And guess what? Having a few quality of life upgrades in a basic piece of software that you don't have to use besides once to set it to your preference (maybe you prefer a different font or have a different use case) doesn't defile the sanctity of Notepad or whatever

Indeed. We should be able to tell our machine that we can't read text smaller than 12pt, & be able to rely on our OS to enforce that.

Sure fine, but even then I wouldn't expect that to affect the behavior of a text editor and to then not be able to override that without going 6 menus deep in one of 3 control panel variants. And hey, Notepad remembers your font settings so just set it once and off you go.

I have to repeat something: we're not talking about defaults here. We're specifically talking about having the option to change your font settings in a text editor. Nobody mentioned OS-wide defaults until you brought it up, and that is a very different conversation.

There's nothing ableist about that. Any user should be able to set system-wide policies to manage their disabilities. Individual apps being able to break those policies makes life worse for disabled people, not better.

Ah. Okay, zoom settings ok. Rendering your raw html in a script font, that's not what notepad is for.