Increasing System Menu Font Size for OS X Lion

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Published on 2011-08-27T23:16:23Z Indexed on 2012/03/20 5:32 UTC
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My father-in-law recently picked up an iMac (with OS X 10.7 - Lion) and loves it. However, his eyesight isn't that great and would like to find a way to increase the font size of the system menu bar like he could on his old Windows system.

I've been unable to find anything in the system configuration that might work. I've heard that the TinkerTool might be able to do it, but I'm a little hesitant to monkey around with his system - I don't want to introduce system stability issues.

Question: Has anyone been able to find any good way to increase the system menu font size?

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