Font Size Too Small
- Bhikkhu Pesala
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Font Size Too Small
Am I getting old, or is the font size on the forum ridiculously small? Looks like 8pt to me. Since when has 8pt been a standard body text font on the Web? I have to zoom in to 150% in Opera to read the site. My default zoom is 120%.
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Re: Font Size Too Small
To be honest - the font size is fine for me!
I'm using Firefox 2 with 100% text zoom on a 17" TFT screen @1280x1024.
For me it rather looks like 10pt. Maybe it is some Opera problem?
BR, phil
I'm using Firefox 2 with 100% text zoom on a 17" TFT screen @1280x1024.
For me it rather looks like 10pt. Maybe it is some Opera problem?
BR, phil
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Re: Font Size Too Small
There's a button at the top right - with an A and two arrows on it - that cycles through three different font sizes.
Re: Font Size Too Small
Opera (9.5 Beta) renders the site just fine here. Looks like 10p to me.
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Re: Font Size Too Small
The three sizes look to me like 8, 10, & 12pt. I think the default was 10pt, but I set mine to the smallest as soon as I started using this forum.
Edit: looking at the CSS the three are Large = 12px, Medium = 11px, & Normal = 10px
Edit: looking at the CSS the three are Large = 12px, Medium = 11px, & Normal = 10px
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Re: Font Size Too Small
The default fornt for for the forum is:
This topic did finally get me to do something I have been meaning to do and that was install Opera and here is a comparison - Opera 9.25, FireFox 3 beta 2
Both browsers are set at 100% zoom - XP, 1280x1024 resolution. To be honest it does almost appear that the font in Opera is just a hair smaller or maybe lighter would be a better way to put it
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font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #828282;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 10px;
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Re: Font Size Too Small
I had changed my smallest font size back to the Opera default of 8px for some reason — I usually have it set on 12px and default zoom is 120%
I think the steps are too small — very little difference beween 10 and 12 px.
Try something like 8, 12, 16 px so that it really is noticable.
I am also using 1280 x 1024 on a 17" TFT monitor.
Don't confuse 8pt with 8px. They are not the same.
I think the steps are too small — very little difference beween 10 and 12 px.
Try something like 8, 12, 16 px so that it really is noticable.
I am also using 1280 x 1024 on a 17" TFT monitor.
Don't confuse 8pt with 8px. They are not the same.
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Re: Font Size Too Small
Expect the person just prior said they immediately set their size smaller...
Actually except for the initial setting the font size is never set explicitly like that - it is set as relative sizes from the baseline. In this case the baseline is 10px and then is sized relative to that.
Anyway - I am not going to be doing this tonight but most likely will be making changes over the weekend to the test forum setup and that is going to include changes to a few of the CSS files - I wouldn't mind trying to set some time when a few of us could try to be on-line and logged in together - the change to the CSS files is imediate - all you need do is refresh your browser - and we could try a few different settings and get a few opinions.
I could do something like 7 AM New York time - so that is 11 AM in London on Sunday for a session
Actually except for the initial setting the font size is never set explicitly like that - it is set as relative sizes from the baseline. In this case the baseline is 10px and then is sized relative to that.
Anyway - I am not going to be doing this tonight but most likely will be making changes over the weekend to the test forum setup and that is going to include changes to a few of the CSS files - I wouldn't mind trying to set some time when a few of us could try to be on-line and logged in together - the change to the CSS files is imediate - all you need do is refresh your browser - and we could try a few different settings and get a few opinions.
I could do something like 7 AM New York time - so that is 11 AM in London on Sunday for a session
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Re: Font Size Too Small
I check in most days. Just send us a PM when you're ready to start testing.
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Re: Font Size Too Small
No change here. The font button does nothing since I have minimum font size set to 12 pix.
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Re: Font Size Too Small
I'm really not sure what to tell you - the font button works for me in FF and Opera under XP and FF 2, 3 and Konqurer under Ubuntu.
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- Bhikkhu Pesala
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Re: Font Size Too Small
Yes. The font button "works" for me too, but since it changes between 8, 10, and 12 pixels and I have my minimum font size set to 12 pixels, it doesn't do much.
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