Php Storm 2017.1 --- Font Size Tiny and Will Not Change
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Hello,
Attached are two images supporting the following problem.
I upgraded to 2017.1 and now the font size of my editor window is tiny.
I attempted to increase the font size in two different places: Appearance, and Editor Color/Fonts.
I re-started Phpstorm after changing the settings. But they do not change the font size.
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Hi there,
For what elements/window are you trying to change the font size?
Terminal (since you have that window in background)?
If so -- check it under "Console Font" and not just "Font"
If it's about GUI elements (buttons etc) -- it should be on first screenshot -- on very top that "13" number that is disabled.
Could you please explicitly show where exactly the font is too small?
Erik said it's the Editor window, however the screenshots show the Terminal tool window, which, as Andriy mentioned, controlled by Console Font.
Elin, please attach a screenshot.
For me, the small font problem was in the Terminal Tool. I have not yet re-installed 2017. Can you confirm this should not be a bug?
I went ahead and re-installed 2017. The font size can be changed as expected when adjusting in: "Console Font" and not just "Font".
Resize will not occur until restarting the program.
I had this issue with 2017.2 when exporting settings.jar from Linux to Windows. My fix was easy, just ensure you change the Color Scheme Font as well:
- Editor > Font
- Editor > Color Scheme > Color Scheme Font (I forgot this one)
@Erik
To be more precise, we cannot change the font of the terminal immediately and on the fly. That's the sad truth but that's how terminal application work.
To change the font without restarting PhpStorm, just close all the terminal tabs with red X button and open it again - new font will be applied.
I have very same problem in 2025 in last 3 PHPStorm versions. I cannot change the console font and its always remains super tiny.
PhpStorm 2025.2 EAP
Build #PS-252.23591.32, built on June 26, 2025
Source revision: 66a7e356e3c1c
Tomas Votruba
Show some screenshots.
Where do you change the font (which Settings screen exactly)? Maybe it needs to be changed in another place.
Thanks for ping-back. I've done a 20 mins back and forth GPT debugging today and after 5 non-working approaches (Oh my zen shell, restart, change font-size, font family, in-crease font-size in browser zoom etc.), it gave me “Terminal” hint.
I saw this option first time in my life. Once I switched from “Reworked 2025” to “Classic”, it started to work again.
Some hint in “Font console” about this “Terminal” setting would be speed up this discovery process.
Yes, the Terminal now has own font settings now (from this 2025.1 version) – https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-177414. Before it was using “Editor | Color Scheme | Console Font” for that.
Cannot say about “Reworked 2025” vs “Classic” difference in this aspect – I do not really use it. But I would expect that both would use the font settings (could be some different in rendering etc., but still).