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Starting ide with -fontsize argument, (or using localized resource), the messages of the startup progress bar do not show at this user selected font. Since messages change frequently cannot attach image, but just start ide with -fontsize 16, for example and you can see messages in progress bar show at smaller font.
Assigning to Dafe.
This is exactly as designed behaviour. Startup splash screen is done in absolute layout and font size of messages must be constant, ignoring fontsize parameter. Otherwise, all layout of splash screen will be screwed up. I tried, just to look at it, and text will simply not fit into splash screen and look horrible. If we really need splash screen to react on font size parameter, we will need to redesign it to reserve reasonable big space for text (which will partly solve this problem, but not for extra big font sizes) or make it resizable (problematic from UI design point of view). So to say, solution is rather complex - do we really need bigger fonts in splash screen? Are chinese characters totally unreadable, or only small to read conveniently? Remember that these texts are changing quickly (as you said) and their purpose isn't to be read carefully by user IMO, just to let them know that something is loading and to speed up perceived performance of system startup. So I believe we don't need to fix this. Please reopen with explanation if you don't agree or I'm missing something.
Dafe is right - in my opinion - verifying