Microscopic system font

I live in an apartment block with 13 other people, most of whom are Mac users. Over the years I’ve ended up as the de facto tech support service for all things OS X and iPad. This includes running the network we have set up throughout the building to support the community. As part of this, I naturally spend a lot of my time in single-user mode. This has never been a problem before now, but I recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro with a Retina display and suddenly I find that the font for the text in this mode is illegibly tiny. Is there any way to increase the size or change the font? Google suggests not. John Crooks Google is right. However, I don’t think there’s as much reason to use single user mode as you seem to. For troubleshooting individual Macs, Recovery mode (boot with å held down and select ‘Recovery HD’ on the boot menu) ought to be plenty. Single user mode is mainly for software developers and maintenance jobs, like running fsck on a shared network disk, for example. If you really do need single user mode then you need stronger glasses; there’s no way to change the font or the screen resolution in this mode, and on Retina displays it uses the entire pixel resolution to render tiny text. You can’t attach an external monitor either, because OS X won’t switch to this until the desktop loads, which doesn’t happen in single user mode.