Why is the title font in my Windows 10 programs enormous?

Recently, the title bar on my Windows 10 programs has been displaying in a larger font size. For example, if I fire up Notepad, it looks like this:

Notepad using a gigantic font in the title bar...

Where it says "Untitled - Notepad," the font is MUCH larger than what I'm used to. Any idea why?

Looking through my Display settings, the only thing I notice is that I have everything scaled by 250%. But that is the recommended setting for my monitor resolution, and it's been that way for a long time.

Thanks for any suggestions!

UPDATE: I tried turning off the 250% magnification. Everything got smaller, but the title text is still much larger than usual -- basically a scaled down version of my earlier screenshot.

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You can adjust the title bar height and width. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics registry key. And now change the value of CaptionHeight and CaptionWidth values. Their values will be in this formula -15*pixels.

Then sign out/in or reboot. Restarting explorer.exe is not enough.

Hope that helps