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I would like to read this, but unfortunately my eyes are in their late forties even if my brain is only 25. Very occasionally I bump up the font size a notch i

I would like to read this, but unfortunately my eyes are in their late forties even if my brain is only 25. Very occasionally I bump up the font size a notch in Chrome to make things a little easier when I am tired. Even HN occasionally. I've not had to bump it up _three_ notches before now. 12px serif body text in 2022? Ouch :-/

IceWreck 5y ago
I had to zoom it to 200% to read on my laptop.
nojonestownpls 5y ago
Reader Mode in Firefox is a godsend for this. Instead of click after click on the Zoom+ button (or Ctrl-+), trying to see how many it takes, it's a single click to immediately get things into exactly the font, width, and colour I want.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  Yeah -- I use Safari's reader mode on the iPad a lot. But I have muscle memory for page-zoom on desktop!
rmbyrro 5y ago
Yep, 200% zoom needed here
donatj 5y ago
>12px serif body text in 2022 Hacker News, and in fact this comment are 12px. Something's up with this site that's making it extra tiny. Update: Proof - https://jdon.at/ZVirr2 https://jdon.at/ZVirr2
- Arkanosis 5y ago
  It's sans-serif, hence the difference. What's extremely interesting is that on my laptop, HN is 12px when Firefox is full screen, but 13.33px when Firefox only uses the left or right half of my screen.
  - unfocussed_mike 5y ago
    > What's extremely interesting is that on my laptop, HN is 12px when Firefox is full screen, but 13.33px when Firefox only uses the left or right half of my screen. Yeah -- this is a common strategy for mobile rendering which on the face of it seems quite counterintuitive, but actually isn't.
    - Arkanosis 5y ago
      That seems so obvious, now that you said it. Thanks for sharing :)
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  Good spot. Though this comment is not 12px Serif, it is 12px sans-serif (and Verdana at that). Which makes a really significant difference with small fonts. It's also not body text on a blog article; this size of text is really too small for long-form reading (which admittedly includes all of my bloviating HN comments, natch)
OJFord 5y ago
Looks great to me, I zoom out twice (80%) by default, often going a third (67%) per site; this looks nice to me at 100%. I'll get there one day I suppose and should enjoy it while it lasts, but for now most stuff really does look comically large and content-less.
xboxnolifes 5y ago
Oh no, you had to use a feature of your browser for it's intended use-case.
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

IceWreck 5y ago

I had to zoom it to 200% to read on my laptop.

nojonestownpls 5y ago

Reader Mode in Firefox is a godsend for this. Instead of click after click on the Zoom+ button (or Ctrl-+), trying to see how many it takes, it's a single click to immediately get things into exactly the font, width, and colour I want.

unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yeah -- I use Safari's reader mode on the iPad a lot. But I have muscle memory for page-zoom on desktop!

rmbyrro 5y ago

Yep, 200% zoom needed here

donatj 5y ago

>12px serif body text in 2022 Hacker News, and in fact this comment are 12px. Something's up with this site that's making it extra tiny. Update: Proof - https://jdon.at/ZVirr2 https://jdon.at/ZVirr2

Arkanosis 5y ago
It's sans-serif, hence the difference. What's extremely interesting is that on my laptop, HN is 12px when Firefox is full screen, but 13.33px when Firefox only uses the left or right half of my screen.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  > What's extremely interesting is that on my laptop, HN is 12px when Firefox is full screen, but 13.33px when Firefox only uses the left or right half of my screen. Yeah -- this is a common strategy for mobile rendering which on the face of it seems quite counterintuitive, but actually isn't.
  - Arkanosis 5y ago
    That seems so obvious, now that you said it. Thanks for sharing :)
unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Good spot. Though this comment is not 12px Serif, it is 12px sans-serif (and Verdana at that). Which makes a really significant difference with small fonts. It's also not body text on a blog article; this size of text is really too small for long-form reading (which admittedly includes all of my bloviating HN comments, natch)

OJFord 5y ago

Looks great to me, I zoom out twice (80%) by default, often going a third (67%) per site; this looks nice to me at 100%. I'll get there one day I suppose and should enjoy it while it lasts, but for now most stuff really does look comically large and content-less.

xboxnolifes 5y ago

Oh no, you had to use a feature of your browser for it's intended use-case.

dang 5y ago
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html