How to Make Text Smaller in Discord

Fortunately, you can adjust Discord’s text font size to match your preferences. With just a few steps, you will be able to easily read your Discord on either your desktop or mobile device.

Keep reading to learn how.

By default, the normal text that Discord uses is a font size of 16px across the platform, whether on the Discord web application or the desktop version. Using the Discord chat scaling feature, you can adjust the font size of the Discord text to suit your eyesight.

To utilize this feature, you can follow these steps:

Desktop/Browser

1. STEP 1

   Open Discord and click on the user settings icon located at the bottom of the application, near your profile photo.

2. STEP 2

   Find the “App Settings” menu, and click on the “Appearance” settings.

3. STEP 3

   

   On the “Appearance” section, scroll down until you can see the “Chat Font Scaling” slider on your computer screen.

4. STEP 4

   

   Adjust the font size according to your preference. You can choose from 12px, 14px, 16px, 18px, 20px, and 24px. You can drag the slider to the right to increase the font size, and drag the slider to the left to decrease the font size.

Mobile

To change the Discord font size on mobile, follow these steps:

1. STEP 1

   Launch the Discord app on your mobile phone.

2. STEP 2

   Tap on the three horizontal lines on the top-left side of the app.

3. STEP 3

   Tap on your profile icon at the bottom right side of the application, which directs you to the user settings.

4. STEP 4

   Scroll down until you find the ‘App settings’ section. Tap on the ‘Appearance’ tab.

5. STEP 5

   Scroll down until you see ‘Zoom level’ on your screen.

6. STEP 6

   Check if ‘Classic chat text size’ is enabled. If it is, switch it off so you can adjust the text size accordingly.

7. STEP 7

   

   Swipe right or left to increase or decrease the Discord font size.

   You can save this setting by tapping on “Save” on the upper-right side of your screen.

Adding space between Discord text messages helps break down paragraphs or thoughts. This will make your chats cleaner and clearer to understand when sending them to message groups or even personal messages.

To add space between messages on the Discord chat, simply use the command: Shift+Enter.

By default, Discord app uses the Uni Sans fonts across the platform. The Uni Sans family is also widely used on the internet, however, some people do not prefer their UI with these fonts in chats. And although Discord app does not have yet a feature that you can alter Discord text font directly, you can change the font in text messaging by using the Discord font generator where you can write/type your characters and choose different fonts that you like. You can then copy and paste selected text or sentence on the Discord chat.

You can choose a different font every single time and create fancy text and special characters to send to your peers.

The Discord app uses Markdown – a markup language that enables users to alter texts using a simple syntax format. Various symbols are used to prompt the Discord text formatting such as bold text, italicized text, underlined text, and strikethrough text.

Here’s how you can utilize Discord text formatting:

1. Bolded text

   Creating bolded text is easy. Simply put two asterisks (**) on either side of your message. You can use this format for emphasis in a message.

   Example: **bold text**

2. Italics

   You can create italicized text on Discord by putting one asterisk (*) on either side of your message. You can use this format to denote particular words or phrases.

   Example: *italics*

3. Underlined text

   You can underline a text by adding two underscores on either side of your message. You can use this format for highlighting important words.

   Example: __underlined phrase__

4. Strikethrough text

   You can strikethrough text by putting two tilde characters (~~) on either side of the text you want to strikethrough.

   Example: ~~strikethrough~~

Another way to highlight your text message on Discord is by using a code block and it’s very easy to do. You can do so by adding two backtick characters (`) on either side of the text.

Example: `code block text`

You can choose different colors on code blocks using syntax codes and symbols. More of that here