Resolution on iMac 27"

Hi everyone. I am a very new Mac user. Last week I bought the new MBPR 13" and love it. Yesterday I bought the iMac 27" i7 with the Nvidia 4bg card. Here's my question.
On the MBPR the text and screen looks great. Not so much on the iMac 27"
I only see three resolution options:
2560x1440
2048x1152
1600x900
2048 probably looks good but the fonts just seem so tiny and unclear. I really wish I could try 1920x1600 but I don't see an option for it which I find strange.
Is there any way to clear up the text size or how it looks or even add the 1920x1600 resolution?
Thanks!

I didn't realize that you posted this issue elsewhere, also.
When you set the display for scaled, there was no 1900 x 1080 scaled resolution?
Did you scroll through all of the resolutions that are in the box to the left once you activated the screen scaling feature?
Earlier generation of iMacs did have the 1900 x 1080 as a scaled screen res. option.

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