How to make emoji bigger in Messages I just upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.3 from Mountain Lion and the emoticons / emoji are quite small in Messages. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between one and another emoji.

When I open the emoji panel they are bigger, at the size I was accustomed to in 10.8. You can see in the picture the size they appear in a message, as compared to the panel.



I've tried making the font bigger in Message's preferences, but the emoji won't change their size either.
The only workaround I've found is to use accessibility zoom; old man style.

The problem persists in Yosemite 10.10.3 with the new Emoji picker.