you might also want to change your font size for other parts of the IDE (other than the code).
Just add the parameter --fontsize <size>
(default size is 11) to the startup command.
You can put it into the command line when launching IDE. You can also put it into the netbeans.conf
file, which is in the /etc
subdirectory of NetBeans installation.
Just place it as a last parameter into the netbeans_default_options
parameter.