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You don't have to make fonts larger, just give me a way of increasing the size without either destroying the website layout or making the site that much more un

You don't have to make fonts larger, just give me a way of increasing the size without either destroying the website layout or making the site that much more unreadable. I would like more flexibility and less rigidity. More times than not I have been plagued by text hiding behind a side-bar, narrow containers constraining the sections like a straw, and/or the layout breaking completely in the process. I'd like to see less designers make presumptions about their audience. While ignoring a smaller section of their audience is fine when the "fix" is hundreds of man-hours away and many dollars burned, this situation is completely rectifiable within short time-periods in most cases and little money spent. Being responsive to your audience isn't a slippery-slope into dystopian large-textinship; it's a way to treat all of your visitors without leaving any wanting of a good experience.

PavlovsCat 14y ago
I would like more flexibility and less rigidity. I completely agree, and I guess I'm in the clear then... I religiously believed in fluid layouts way before responsive web design and whatnot where even concepts. It's just that I like the default "more tight" than what seems to be the preference of many, reading these posts - but if you're willing to zoom, I'm willing to make that as painless as possible :D
- DanBC 14y ago
  > but if you're willing to zoom, :p How about you zoom out? That means you can have normal (huge) text for everyone.
  - PavlovsCat 14y ago
    Because I have glasses the nearly thickness of coke bottle bottoms and no problems with small text, because I didn't wait decades for high-res displays that don't flicker just to throw the resolution away again, and mostly because I don't really look at individual letters as glance across them when reading a normal text with known words, so for me smaller fonts allow scanning larger chunks more quickly, and parsing words and phrases in chunks as well, while moving the eyes back and forth and scrolling a whole lot hinder me from simply absorbing the text. In short, because it's more efficient for me and there are bound to be people for whom it's the same. Because designing for my own actual eyes strikes me as honest or something.

PavlovsCat 14y ago

I would like more flexibility and less rigidity. I completely agree, and I guess I'm in the clear then... I religiously believed in fluid layouts way before responsive web design and whatnot where even concepts. It's just that I like the default "more tight" than what seems to be the preference of many, reading these posts - but if you're willing to zoom, I'm willing to make that as painless as possible :D

DanBC 14y ago
> but if you're willing to zoom, :p How about you zoom out? That means you can have normal (huge) text for everyone.
- PavlovsCat 14y ago
  Because I have glasses the nearly thickness of coke bottle bottoms and no problems with small text, because I didn't wait decades for high-res displays that don't flicker just to throw the resolution away again, and mostly because I don't really look at individual letters as glance across them when reading a normal text with known words, so for me smaller fonts allow scanning larger chunks more quickly, and parsing words and phrases in chunks as well, while moving the eyes back and forth and scrolling a whole lot hinder me from simply absorbing the text. In short, because it's more efficient for me and there are bound to be people for whom it's the same. Because designing for my own actual eyes strikes me as honest or something.