LargeType2 shows your selected text at huge font sizes. Hooray!

Drop it in your app folder, log out and back in again, then experience a brave new world of shadowed white-on-black text and draggable translucent windows! Just choose "LargeType" from the Services menu, or right-click and go to Services in the handy contextual menu.

For even more convenience, assign "LargeType" a keyboard shortcut through the keyboard system prefs!

Download LargeType2 now! (430 KB)

LargeType2 requires macOS 10.13 or later.

Source code available on github.

LargeType2 is ultimately inspired by the Address Book "Large Type" phone numbers feature. The original LargeType (by Cold Pizza Software) was abandoned, so LargeType2 reproduces its functionality on modern machines.

This program was originally called "aLgrTepy2e" (it was a little-endian joke). It had the disadvantage of being unpronounceable.

What's New

• fixed non-transparent rounded corners (started showing up when running macOS 13 or later)

• invoke on the command line: open -a LargeType2 --args -s "hello world"
• notarized for GateKeeper on macOS 10.15+
• support native Apple silicon
• now requires OS X 10.13 or later

• fix a bug where short strings were clipped along the bottom

• code-signed for Gatekeeper on 10.9.5
• changed name to be pronounceable
• now requires OS X 10.6 or later

• first release. download for OS X 10.5 or earlier (393 KB)

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