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There are several posts and information around for changing the mode-line face properties, like size. I tried them for a smaller mode-line, using: (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :height 100)

This works fine, but I've just realized that this also changes the top (header?) line that I use for sticky-func-mode, which is unfortunate because it is smaller than my buffer face and disrupts the visual structure of the code.

How can I change the mode-line size without affecting the header line (I'm not sure how its called)?

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  • There are really just too many possibilities to give an answer here. The mode-line-format can be set to something completely different than the header-line-format. By default they may share some of the same components, but each one can be customized independently. The text within each can be without any specific faces, or they can have many different faces assigned. You could conceivably spend some time and completely customize the header-line-format in sticky-func-mode to do whatever you want.
    – lawlist
    Commented Aug 19, 2016 at 22:06

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I finally found it; doing an apropos of header-line and searching for faces put me on the right track. For example:

(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :height 100) (set-face-attribute 'header-line nil :height 200)

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  • There is nothing wrong with this general solution, but it will not work when certain textual components of the mode-line-format or header-line-format contain different faces (with different heights/sizes) and/or images.
    – lawlist
    Commented Aug 21, 2016 at 13:21

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