I don’t know how many of you were frustrated by the default font size of Mathematica, especially when there seems to be no way to change it!
But you no longer have to — here is the way (Version 8.0):
Go to: “Format”->”Option Inspector…” (or Shift + Ctrl + O)
A compound dialog pops up, to change font size just expand “Formatting Options”,
click on “Font Options” item, and change whatever you want in the right panel!
There are lots of additional options to hack with, cheers~
NOTE: first close all your notebooks – otherwise the your settings will automatically change back!
Update:
The above is for MS windows. for Linux things are a little bit different. You need to change the item of the dropdown list named ‘Show Option Values’ to ‘Global Preferences’. See the screenshot below.







