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FelixDavidson

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From: NJ

Registered: 2016-01-15

Posts: 31

font appears small in mpv

Does anyone know how to fix this? The fonts in the time progress bar look very small. I'm not even exactly sure where I would start on fixing this. The only thing in my config is save-position-on-quit. On my other machines I do not have this problem.

kocotian

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From: Łaguszów, Poland

Registered: 2020-07-24

Posts: 40

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Re: font appears small in mpv

Hi
Try to experiment with ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
I tried `font-size`, `fontsize` and `font-scale`, but sadly it doesn't work. You can try setting `font=[font]`, because your current font can be small, try for example `font=monospace`, maybe it will work. Probably in documentation are all available options for this config, so i'm going to find.

kocotian

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From: Łaguszów, Poland

Registered: 2020-07-24

Posts: 40

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Re: font appears small in mpv

So already i know that `font` is deprecated, so better will be `osd-font`, and which is most important - there is `osd-font-size`, but that doesn't work for bar, (maybe for me only, so you can try), `osd-font-size` changes for example size of font when you press i. You can experiment with other `osd` options, options in config is almost the same as started by `--` via comand line, everything should be in manual, or if you use zsh with completion, you will get all options

teshk

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Registered: 2026-05-19

Posts: 1

Re: font appears small in mpv

Install the following packages first. fontconfig google-noto-sans-fonts google-noto-serif-fonts google-noto-emoji-fonts liberation-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-fonts

Then refresh the font cache with fc-cache -fv

Finally put this in the mpv.conf file

sub-font="Noto Sans"
osd-font="Noto Sans"

sub-scale=1.0
sub-font-size=42
osd-font-size=32

sub-border-size=2
sub-shadow-offset=1

keepaspect=yes

This is what worked for me

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 13,510

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Re: font appears small in mpv

OP hasn't returned to the forums in over five years, it is unlikely that they are still searching for a solution to this issue.

Mod note: closing this old topic.

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