Increasing the font size in Windows 10

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The only option I can see in display settings is under 'scale and layout', where you can increase the font size and UI scale. However, it blows up the images too which I don't want. I want to increase the font size and keep image size the same. You could do this in previous Windows versions by changing font sizes of menus, toolbars, icon text, dialogue boxes and so on, then UI scale (known as 'DPI') was a separate setting altogether. This worked all the way up to as recent as Windows 8.1. Anyone got any ideas? It seems that Microsoft are dumbing down on their OS more than ever! As an Android user and Windows user since 3.1, I want to be able to change my settings.
 

Settings -> Ease of Access -> Display and the first option is "Make text bigger".

Thanks fellas. I'm partially sighted and both of these answers worked for me :)

@yashiro - your answer was geared towards desktop apps and the Win Aero Tweaker allowed me change individual font sizes on desktop apps like on previous Windows version. Just log out and back in to see the changes.

@Orcvader - your answer was geared towards the mobile apps, which makes up an increasingly bigger proportion of Windows in Windows 10 than in previous version, even Windows 8! E.g. File Explorer, settings, start menu, Spotify, pretty much everything to do with the backbone of the OS are mobile app-based, so your answer worked on these elements.
 
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