How to make visual studio code sidebar smaller without compromising the font size of the code inside the editor

Question

I want to make the icons(explorer, search, source control etc.) on the left side of the code editors smaller in size. But when I do command - it reduces the size of the code's font within the editor too. How do I go about this?

Answer 1

Currently, the only way I am aware of is what I do:

Click on Preferences, Settings, scroll down to Editor: Font Size, and change it from the default of 12 to 14 or 16.

Then click Command + - and it will shrink all the fonts (and the file font too). This is where making the file fonts bigger comes in—the file fonts will be back to "normal" when you shrink everything.