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I have a 5K, 27” screen. It’s too small to display 3 paragraphs of text on a webpage. This trend to increase fonts and margins needs to stop. Desktops and brow

I have a 5K, 27” screen. It’s too small to display 3 paragraphs of text on a webpage. This trend to increase fonts and margins needs to stop. Desktops and browsers should have more control over how they display windows and text, we shouldn’t leave it to website designers to compensate for every single person’s preference. What’s next, an Age API based on IP location, which increases text size because they assume you’re presbyte?

medstrom 3y ago
This effect is driven by the trend in CSS frameworks to increase the base font size for wider windows. I.e. you might have a base font size at 16px, which applies on your "phone" breakpoint, but your "desktop" breakpoint scales this up to 150% or 200%. This leads to being able to read 5 paragraphs on your phone but only 2 paragraphs on your desktop. I find it insane. Just let it stay at 16px; the result is still easier to read than the text on your phone, so why bother fiddling with that at all? I'd even sympathize with a controversial take such that the font size should shrink on the desktop, not grow! The desktop is for utility, and info-density is one of the things it can support very well. Proof? My Emacs font is smaller than the base font in Firefox, yet I stare at Emacs text all day. And HN is, apparently, 12px.