How do I change the font on my Macbook Pro?

My issue is that the writing is so small and I can't see very well as it is, I end up 2 inches away from my screen and I can't work out how to change it. There doesn't seem to be a universal "just make text bigger" option on my mac and it's really annoying me now that I use it more often for emails and such. I can make things within my web-browser bigger by using shift, command + but that doesn't work in emails.
I know you go to font and then select, but when I select, it opens a dialog box with no save or okay button or anything, so when I select my new font, it doesn't stay selected when I shut the dialog box it's still the default one.... how am I supposed to make it change?????

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Or you can enable screen zoom in Accessibility preferences:

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