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When you open https://www.bing.com/mapbuilder/ https://www.bing.com/mapbuilder/ for the first time, this text is at the bottom of its splash modal: > Map build
by chrismorgan 4y ago
When you open https://www.bing.com/mapbuilder/ https://www.bing.com/mapbuilder/ for the first time, this text is at the bottom of its splash modal:
> Map builder is powered by data from OpenStreetMap—a free, community-driven map of the world. By continuing, you agree to the Microsoft Services Agreement. Edits you make will be visible on maps that use OpenStreetMap data.
… but it’s presented at a font size of 7px. For many people and on many devices, 7px text might as well not even be there. And #767676-on-#ffffff makes it a little worse.
(Actually, the second last word, “OpenStreetMap”, is a link-styled button that opens the help/info panel described in the article, and due to careless styling and very weird DOM structures, that word “OpenStreetMap” is then bumped to 12px while that panel is open.)
I’m honestly not certain I’ve ever encountered such-sized text before, for any purpose, let alone important stuff like this. I probably have, given how 9px was hardly rare fifteen years ago (HN the yes-we-all-know-its-font-sizes-are-way-too-small-and-why-hasn’t-sanity-been-restored-just-yet-so-we-can-all-stop-using-it-at-at-least-120%-zoom even has 7pt, which is 9⅓px), but nothing springs to mind for even 8px.