<div class="bbcode_center" style="text-align:center;"><img alt="steam-logo.jpg" class="bbcode_img" src="http://daxgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/steam-logo.jpg"><br><br><b><span style="font-size:16px;">A Quick Guide on How to Increase Font Size in Steam Chats</span></b></div>

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I'm sure a lot of you have thought at one point or another, "Good God why is the text size in Steam chat windows so ridiculously small!? I can only read if it I'm a few inches from the screen!" Well if you've got about 2 minutes to spare you can fix this problem once and for all.<br><br>

First of all you need to locate your Steam folder. For most people you can find it through the following sequence:<br><br><i>My Computer -> C: Drive -> Program Files(32 bit) or Program(x86)(64 bit).-> Steam</i><br><br>

Now that you've found the Steam folder we need to locate the configuration and settings file for Steam's chat functions, <b>"steam.styles"</b>. You can find this file through this sequence:<br><br><i>Steam -> resource -> styles</i><br><br>

Hopefully you should now be looking at two files: <b>"gameoverlay.styles"</b> and <b>"steam.styles"</b>.<br><br>

Double click on the <b>"steam.styles"</b>. Windows will prompt you to select a program to open it so go ahead and select Notepad. Alright now you're probably looking at a massive amount of information which will confuse most users but don't worry the next step is really simple.<br><br>

You need to use Notepad's search feature now(CTRL+F). When the search window appears type or copy the following(without the quotation marks) into it:<br><br>

"styles for text used in RichText controls in various places"<br><br>

Now click Find Next and if you've done this correctly you'll be toward the bottom of the file looking at this:<br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>

<div class="quote-block">// styles for text used in RichText controls in various places<br><br>

console_text_error<br>

{<br>

textcolor="Highlight3"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

selectedtextcolor="TextSelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="Focus"<br>

}<br><br>

console_text<br>

{<br>

font-family="Lucida Console"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

textcolor="text"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextSelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="Focus"<br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_text<br>

{<br>

textcolor="text"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

SelectedBgColor="focus"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_text_self<br>

{<br>

textcolor="ChatOwnTextColor"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_event<br>

{<br>

textcolor="Text"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_bright_event<br>

{<br>

textcolor="text"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

font-weight=1000<br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_url<br>

{<br>

textcolor="text"<br>

SelectedBgColor="focus"<br>

font-style=underline<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_name_ingame<br>

{<br>

textcolor="Friends.InGameColor"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br><br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_self<br>

{<br>

textcolor="Friends.OnlineColor"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_name<br>

{<br>

textcolor="Friends.OnlineColor"<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_accountid<br>

{<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextentrySelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="focus"<br>

textcolor="text"<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

}<br><br>

friends_chat_securitylink<br>

{<br>

textcolor="text"<br>

bgcolor="none"<br>

font-family=basefont<br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b>font-size=20</b></span><br>

font-weight=400<br>

font-style=underline<br>

selectedtextcolor="TextSelected"<br>

selectedbgcolor="Focus"</div>

</div>

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You've now reached the portion of the file that controls the size of fonts in the chat UI. To increase or decrease this font size you need to change the numbers at the end of this sequence in each of the code paragraphs, xx being any number:<br><br>

"font-size=xx"<br><br>

To make this easier to find I have bolded and underlined every instance of it in the code I've linked.<br><br>

I believe the default number is 12 which is rather small, especially if you're using a high resolution on your screen. Anyway at this point the size is up to you so just put in a 14, 16, 18, 20 or whatever where I indicated. Once you've done this with <b>all the instances</b> save the file and restart Steam. You should now be able to more easily read your chat boxes!<br><br>

Hope this guide helped!<br><br>

Also I wasn't sure if I should post this in PC games or other software so I just went with here. If it's wrong and the mods want to move it go ahead.