vim on ultra-high display (3200-1800) on Windows 8 [duplicate]

Question

gvim for windows has tiny text and icons on my ultra-HD Dell laptop (3200-1800) . In fact, it is barely readable. How does one change gvim gui fonts and increases the icons to obtain readable text on a high resolution, windows 8 laptop?

Answer 1

you should configure you font size, one possible solution is is like this(you can put it in your vimrc):

set guifont=Consolas:h13

"Consolas" is the font name and "h13" is the font size, you should change 13 to a proper number~

Answer 2

(I'm not sure about Windows, but...)

It really depends. If you're using vim from a terminal emulator the settings must be changed in your terminal emulator (let's say PuTTy).

But if you're using GVIM, then use :set guifont font\ name\ size to specify the font size. In order to check witch font and size you're using, simple call :set guifont and it will promt you with the current settings

In my case I use the following: :set guifont=Ubuntu\ Mono\ 18