Just started playing Shadowlands (I know not that big of a deal since the new expansion is coming soon), but the UI elements and font size are ridiculously small looking. Sitting about 3 ft away from a 28" 2k monitor, what I consider to be fairly ergonomic since I don’t need to move my eyes that much to see the screen content, everything looks small. I can try to change the window resolution, but dropping it from 2k to 1080p just blurs the image and looks worse than WoW Classic Vanilla.
Are people actually okay with this font size?
There’s a UI scale slider in the game options. When I upgraded to 1440p, I just made my UI bugger. Also, in monitor lingo, 2k and 1080p are the same thing.
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I have my UI pretty big with bartender because of my 32 inch by 32 inch monitor that and because my vision sucks and I’m near-sighted.
Since when is 2k and 1080p the same thing? That’s almost like, by extension, saying 4k and 1080p are the same thing.
2k specifically means 1440p.
On another note, I’ll have to play around with the UI slider. I just find it odd that they made default so tiny.
Nope. If you look at monitors, they sometimes just say 2k, but it’s a 1920 monitor. QHD is short for 1440p.
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If you have the UI scale completely unchecked, your UI will be tiny. That’s also the default setting.
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This must have been something new they did with Shadowlands because I didn’t have this issue when I was playing BFA some years ago. For the longest time, the UI slider was always at 100%/mid.
I would check it again. Patches have a habit of resetting some settings.
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So, I actually looked up some monitors on Amazon and 2k is sometimes 1080p and sometimes 1440p. I wish the industry would makeup their mind.
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That’s what it was. The UI Scale was unchecked. Thanks for pointing me at the right setting to check out.
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I would wait till dragonflight since they are revamping the whole HUD UI and adding flexibility to how you want it to look or use.
I got some reading glasses specifically for sitting at my computer and the monitor distance.
you can use UI scaling now if its an issue but seems fine imo. 
I believe you can adjust it in the settings. Also the UI is getting some improvements in Dragonflight.