# Font scale difference between prebuilt and custom built ParaView.

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/font-scale-difference-between-prebuilt-and-custom-built-paraview/14596
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/font-scale-difference-between-prebuilt-and-custom-built-paraview/14596 "2024-05-10T09:33:57Z")
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### Author: ![Reshm\_R\_S](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/reshm_r_s/32/12131_2.png) [@Reshm\_R\_S](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Reshm_R_S)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/font-scale-difference-between-prebuilt-and-custom-built-paraview/14596/1 "2024-05-10T09:33:57Z")

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Hi!,  
The prebuild version of paraview in my ubuntu 24 is showing proper and nice looking font sizes but a custom built version of paraview on the same machine gives me a large font sizes in the UI. (see images below).

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/21b888f58b8ec4dae7d4b9119028a4b31895ad36.png)  
 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9c97f2be74349691130b1fe24d718e3a28479d1f.png)

I fixed this problem by issuing a command `export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.8` before starting paraview but I was wondering if there is an alternative solution? I am trying to avoid using the hardcoded constant value.