Control the font size of tensorboard interface

[zhiyiYo]

Environment data

• Python Extension version: v2021.3.619164699-dev
• OS and version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042
• Python version: Python 3.8.6

Expected behaviour

As shown in the figure below, the font size of tensorboard opened by browser looks comfortable.

Actual behaviour

The font of tensorboard opened with VS Code is too small. It will be very tired to see the words clearly. Is there any way to adjust the font size of tensorborad in VS Code?

[joyceerhl]

Thanks for the feedback. Currently there isn't a way to control the font size. We intentionally scaled the UI down because we got feedback that TensorBoard's zoom level in the browser was too zoomed in in VS Code. You can work around this by using Ctrl + or the Zoom In command in VS Code.

We could improve this experience at least two ways:

1. (Simple) Provide a setting to control the scale that we apply to the TensorBoard UI. Currently this is 0.7 i.e. 70%.
2. (Higher effort) Upstream a change to TensorBoard allowing us to specify different stylesheets for the TensorBoard UI, perhaps via TensorBoard's Python API.

[zhiyiYo]

Thanks for your reply. I think it's strange to use Ctrl + to enlarge the tensorboard interface beacause it will enlarge VS Code too. Looking forward to the python extension team's follow-up work on tensorboard🙂.

[janosh]

@joyceerhl I came here to suggest 1., i.e. adding a setting that controls the TensorBoard zoom level.

[brettcannon]

Moved to #17214