If you bought new laptops and PCs running Windows 10 or even fresh MacBooks come with very high resolution displays, you might have faced a strange issue with the Chrome browser. With the high resolution displays some of the webpages don’t looks well with the high resolution displays, the content of these webpages are moreover unusually large or small. Hope, you can fix that by using the zoom option in Chrome.

Chrome does let you temporarily zoom-in or out using the three-dot menu button on the top right corner and use the Zoom option or Ctrl +/- shortcut but, that will be a temporary solution what if you want to permanently change the default zoom or text size in Chrome.

Change Default Zoom in Chrome

To permanently set the zoom of webpages in Chrome, just head to Chrome Settings. Here, scroll down below and click on “Show advanced settings“.

Then, under the “Web Content” section, click on the “Page Zoom” drop-down menu and select the zoom percentage that lets you view webpages better.

Change Text Size in Chrome

If you just want to make sure the text in webpages is larger or smaller, you can change the text size in Chrome. In the Web Content section of Chrome Settings, you also have an option to change the font size from very small to very large.

You can also click on the “Customize Fonts” option to change the fonts of different text in Chrome, as well as the encoding.

If you want to change the font of different languages, you can check out the Advanced Font Settings extension.

Note: Some webpages use fixed fonts and in that case, changing the text size in Chrome won’t help and you should use the zoom feature.

Change Text Size in Chrome Android

If you happen to own one of the latest Android flagships that pack in QHD/2K displays and you are seeing webpages load up weirdly in Chrome, it’s probably a good idea to change the text size. To do it, you can go to Chrome Settings->Accessibility and drag the text scaling slider to the percentage you want. Here, you can also enable “Force Zoom” to zoom-in on any website.

View webpages better through these options in Chrome

In Chrome this is important that you customize the various aspects like text size, zoom to meet your preference. Thankfully, Chrome offers some good impressive options to change default zoom or text size. So, try out these options on your Windows PC or laptop, Mac or Android smartphone.