# Icon size
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998 "2019-06-06T12:30:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@MarinaVendlCraveiro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarinaVendlCraveiro)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/1 "2019-06-06T12:30:55Z")
Hi!
Is there any way to increase the size of the selection icons at the top of the view? They are very small!
Thank you,
Marina
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/2 "2019-06-06T12:31:57Z")
Not yet. This would be quite simple to implement if you are a C++ developper and are wanting to contribute.
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### Author:  [@MarinaVendlCraveiro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarinaVendlCraveiro)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/3 "2019-06-06T12:48:59Z")
Thank you for answering my question.
Sorry for not being able to contribute with the software. I’m just a user of it.
Marina
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/4 "2019-06-06T16:48:15Z")
Here is the bug that keeps slipping. We know about it, it just hasn’t risen to the top of the stack.
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17343](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17343)
Alan
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### Author:  [@MarinaVendlCraveiro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarinaVendlCraveiro)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/5 "2019-06-06T17:44:58Z")
Let’s wait then!
Thank you,
Marina
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### Author:  [@Richard](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Richard)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/6 "2020-01-14T13:41:49Z")
I would also very much welcome this! The icons are nearly indistinguishable and still extremely relevant for most post-processing operations from GUI side! Any update on this 6 months later? Thank you
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/7 "2020-01-14T14:22:06Z")
The selection icon size has been increased in ParaView 5.8.0-RC1, coming out a bit later today on [www.paraview.org/download](http://www.paraview.org/download)
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### Author:  [@Richard](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Richard)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/8 "2020-01-30T10:49:36Z")
Hello Cory
Just downloaded Paraview 5.8.0-RC1 … the icons are not significantly larger. Barely better. Why are you reluctant giving them a proper and perfectly recognizable size ?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/9 "2020-01-30T10:51:57Z")
Could you share a screenshot ?
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### Author:  [@Richard](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Richard)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/10 "2020-01-30T10:53:15Z")
Sure
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### Author:  [@Samanvith\_A](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Samanvith_A)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/11 "2020-01-30T11:03:12Z")
@mwestphal Also the interactive select points isn’t working in the new ParaView i.e 5.8
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/12 "2020-01-30T11:05:21Z")
Works perfectly here, and unrelated to the topic. Open your own topic.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/13 "2020-01-30T13:39:49Z")
> [@Richard](#):
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> Why are you reluctant giving them a proper and perfectly recognizable size ?
It looks like you have a nice, large display! While that is becoming more common, there are still many smaller displays in ParaView’s user base. We need to leave some space for visualization, hence the desire to minimize icon size.
We are moving icons from PNGs to SVGs, so at some stage we may be able to provide a setting to increase font size, much like we provide a setting to control the font size in the UI. But as with all things, that takes time. Thanks for your patience.
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### Author:  [@Stephen\_Lee](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Stephen_Lee)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/14 "2024-03-16T06:13:05Z")
sure, it’s too small.
```auto
Client Information:
Version: 5.11.2
VTK Version: 9.2.20220823
Qt Version: 5.15.12
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: /usr/lib/python3.11
Python Library Version: 3.11.8 (main, Feb 12 2024, 14:50:05) [GCC 13.2.1 20230801]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.26.4
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.8.2
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: On
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory:
Data Directory:
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 12
OpenGL Vendor: AMD
OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.0.2-manjaro1.1
OpenGL Renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.6.19-1-MANJARO)
Accelerated filters overrides available: No
Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No
```
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/icon-size/1998/15 "2024-03-18T08:43:47Z")
Please use the binary release from [https://paraview.org/download](https://paraview.org/download)