diff --git a/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/UITask.cpp b/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/UITask.cpp
index a0fa3edb..7b26b8b0 100644
--- a/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/UITask.cpp
+++ b/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/UITask.cpp
@@ -50,7 +50,14 @@
   #define UI_RECENT_LIST_SIZE 4
 #endif
 
-#if UI_HAS_JOYSTICK
+// The sim's D-pad + dedicated OK/Enter key behaves like a joystick board
+// (a short Enter press opens Settings/Tools/Messages -- see the
+// KEY_ENTER && _page==... handlers below; holding it separately reaches
+// KEY_CONTEXT_MENU via handleLongPress(), same as a real joystick board's
+// long-press) -- without SIM_PLATFORM here, this would fall to the
+// touchscreen-board wording below, which describes a different, and for
+// this input method simply wrong, interaction.
+#if UI_HAS_JOYSTICK || defined(SIM_PLATFORM)
   #define PRESS_LABEL "press Enter"
 #else
   #define PRESS_LABEL "long press"
diff --git a/variants/sim/SimDisplayDriver.h b/variants/sim/SimDisplayDriver.h
index e4efc3a8..bc04a48b 100644
--- a/variants/sim/SimDisplayDriver.h
+++ b/variants/sim/SimDisplayDriver.h
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ class SimDisplayDriverCanvas : public DisplayDriver {
   bool _on = false;
   int _cursor_x = 0, _cursor_y = 0;
   Color _color = LIGHT;
+  int _text_sz = 1;
 
 public:
   SimDisplayDriverCanvas() : DisplayDriver(128, 64) { }
@@ -234,10 +235,21 @@ public:
     });
   }
 
-  void setTextSize(int sz) override { /* one fixed size, like the native ASCII backend */ }
+  void setTextSize(int sz) override { _text_sz = sz; }
   void setColor(Color c) override { _color = c; }
   void setCursor(int x, int y) override { _cursor_x = x; _cursor_y = y; }
 
+  // MiscFixed's real metrics (6px advance, 9px row height -- see
+  // src/helpers/ui/MiscFixedFont.h), scaled by the current text size, same
+  // as a real board's SSD1306Display::getCharWidth()/getLineHeight() do.
+  // DisplayDriver.h's own defaults (6/8, unscaled) would make the Clock
+  // screen's setTextSize(2)/(4) big-digit layout math (drawBig()'s width
+  // centring, line spacing) come out wrong -- half-size digits crowded on
+  // top of each other -- even though print() itself renders them at the
+  // right size once _text_sz reaches it (see target.cpp).
+  int getCharWidth() const override { return 6 * _text_sz; }
+  int getLineHeight() const override { return 9 * _text_sz; }
+
   // Amber-on-black palette (a common OLED look) for LIGHT/DARK; the other
   // Color enumerators (RED/GREEN/BLUE/YELLOW/ORANGE) aren't used on the real
   // monochrome OLED boards this sim mirrors either (DisplayDriver.h's own
diff --git a/variants/sim/target.cpp b/variants/sim/target.cpp
index 4bb87acc..c8922fea 100644
--- a/variants/sim/target.cpp
+++ b/variants/sim/target.cpp
@@ -69,8 +69,11 @@ void SimDisplayDriverCanvas::print(const char* str) {
   gfx.setCursor(_cursor_x, _cursor_y);
   // color arg is just our own internal "lit" marker (1) -- the real on-screen
   // amber/black choice is applied once at blit time below, from _color, same
-  // as every other primitive in this class.
-  miscFixedPrint(gfx, str, 1, 1);
+  // as every other primitive in this class. sz is the real current text
+  // size (set via setTextSize(), e.g. the Clock screen's big digits) --
+  // miscFixedPrint()/miscFixedDrawGlyph() scale both the glyph pixels and
+  // the advance width by it already.
+  miscFixedPrint(gfx, str, _text_sz, 1);
 
   // startFrame() already blanks the whole canvas to black every frame, so
   // only the lit pixels need drawing here -- unlit buffer cells are already