Is it even possible to increase the font size in the Illustrator CC UI? Panels are unreadable!

With the demise of my beloved Fireworks, I am giving Illustrator CC a try. Right off the bat it is unusable due to the microscopic font sizes in the UI, panels in particular. Is there any way to make the UI more readable?

In OSX search for the "FontTheme_Panel.xml" file within the "Adobe Illustrator CC.app" package. (right click + "show package contents"). In it you'll see the code below.... I didn't mess with the "!ENTITY" kText values, just the "FontSize name=" values. You'll probably want to bump the "Text_Main_Large" size up to 13. Past that it doesn't read well but then again I guess you could set custom row heights for panels like layers.
And as always, back up the original and back up your altered file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ThemeParameters [

<!ENTITY kText_Main_Large "0"> 
<!ENTITY kText_Main_Small "1">
<!ENTITY kText_Title "2">

<!ENTITY kFontSizeSchemeSmall "0">
<!ENTITY kFontSizeSchemeMedium "1">
<!ENTITY kFontSizeSchemeLarge "2">
]>
<ThemeParameters>
<ThemeFonts>
    <FontSize name="&kText_Main_Small;" size="8" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeSmall;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Main_Small;" size="8" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeMedium;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Main_Small;" size="8" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeLarge;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Main_Large;" size="10" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeSmall;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Main_Large;" size="10" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeMedium;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Main_Large;" size="10" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeLarge;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Title;" size="12" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeSmall;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Title;" size="12" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeMedium;" />
    <FontSize name="&kText_Title;" size="12" scheme="&kFontSizeSchemeLarge;" />
</ThemeFonts>
</ThemeParameters>
Godspeed

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