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Adjustable F3/debug menu font size

The Debug menu is very useful for getting certain information, especially coordinates and light levels. I use this menu frequently and it irritates me how large the font is. 

I like my hotbar and inventory to be big and visible when playing, but I have a large monitor (1920 x 1080) so "GUI Scale: 4" is the only option that feels big enough for me. The problem is, GUI Scale also controls the size of the text in the F3 menu, and because I have a large GUI scale, the text is extremely large. When I have the menu open, the information takes up so much of the screen that it makes it hard to see the world around me (Image below).

*This screenshot shows how much of the screen can be obscured on GUI Scale 4. Also observe that the menu text is set to the same size as text that would appear for Item names or when typing in chat. 

I would like there to be a setting somewhere in the options that allows you to change the size of the text in this menu. It doesn't need to be as customizable as the chat settings, but at least being able to set the scale of the text to a lower scale (ex 1-3) without affecting this size of the other GUI text would be great.

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    Same thing here, came to post this request as well.  Can we have a separate sizing option for debug/info window instead of it being tied to the whole GUI resize?  Please?  Purty please?

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    Great idea! I just wanted to suggest the same thing.

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    I totally agree. Separate sliders for both GUI scale and debug info.

    Would also be nice to have other options to customize the debug menu like the option to ONLY show the XYZ coordinates, among other things.

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    i entirely agree with you, the text is enourmous

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    I came here to see if it was possible, that's a great idea, that would be great if it was possible

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    Begging for this to be a thing. It's so frustrating that to have to choose between a reasonably sized inventory interface, or a readonably sized f3 interface, and not both. I use both frequently so having them seperately customizable feels like a no brainer to me!

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    Please, please implement this already.

    Having to choose between reasonable text size and reasonably sized ui elements is just wrong.

    I shouldn't have to buy a screen with smaller resolution just to have a better text size!