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I've struggled sometimes too. Try increasing your font size. My vision is excellent, but I think staring at tiny fonts increases strain on your eye muscles or s

by wes-exp 14y ago

I've struggled sometimes too. Try increasing your font size. My vision is excellent, but I think staring at tiny fonts increases strain on your eye muscles or something. Also, as monitors have gone up in resolution over the years, pixel density has increased, shrinking the default font size from what is appropriate for the eyes. Lowering the brightness is not always beneficial. In fact, the opposite can be true. Brightness is usually controlled electronically by rapidly switching the backlight on and off. Therefore, lowering the brightness can increase the amount of flicker, which is imperceptible but still implicated in strain. Try turning the brightness all the way up, which will minimize flicker. If it's too bright, wear sunglasses and see if that helps.

eropple 14y ago
>I've struggled sometimes too. Try increasing your font size. My vision is excellent, but I think staring at tiny fonts increases strain on your eye muscles or something. This one has been the big one for me. My vision is not excellent, and the coke-bottle glasses are a testament to that, but I'm just about 20/20 with them on and I still end up feeling weird after staring at a screen for too long. I tend to use fonts about three steps up from normal size and I never have problems anymore. Big fonts and 1920x1200 (Retina) on a 15" screen makes for a lot of workspace and it looks good. :)
mgkimsal 14y ago
" Try increasing your font size." It'd be great if many apps actually let you do that. Finder on OSX - how do increase the font size there? IntelliJ - how do you increase the font size there? I can increase the font size of my editing area, but not of the tree area with files in it. Have been using macs for the past few years, and this is my one of my biggest bugbears - font sizes are often very locked down, and I end up having to shift my position or squint.
- dictum 14y ago
  >Finder on OSX - how do increase the font size there? While browsing a folder, do a secondary click (right button on Magic Mouse or two-finger click on a trackpad), open "Show view options". A popup window will appear; select your desired font size (I think 16px is the maximum). Then click on "Use as defaults" and all folder and file labels will use the same font size.
  - mgkimsal 14y ago
    thanks. doesn't help for the sidebar text though. :/

by wes-exp 14y ago

eropple 14y ago

>I've struggled sometimes too. Try increasing your font size. My vision is excellent, but I think staring at tiny fonts increases strain on your eye muscles or something. This one has been the big one for me. My vision is not excellent, and the coke-bottle glasses are a testament to that, but I'm just about 20/20 with them on and I still end up feeling weird after staring at a screen for too long. I tend to use fonts about three steps up from normal size and I never have problems anymore. Big fonts and 1920x1200 (Retina) on a 15" screen makes for a lot of workspace and it looks good. :)

mgkimsal 14y ago

" Try increasing your font size." It'd be great if many apps actually let you do that. Finder on OSX - how do increase the font size there? IntelliJ - how do you increase the font size there? I can increase the font size of my editing area, but not of the tree area with files in it. Have been using macs for the past few years, and this is my one of my biggest bugbears - font sizes are often very locked down, and I end up having to shift my position or squint.

dictum 14y ago
>Finder on OSX - how do increase the font size there? While browsing a folder, do a secondary click (right button on Magic Mouse or two-finger click on a trackpad), open "Show view options". A popup window will appear; select your desired font size (I think 16px is the maximum). Then click on "Use as defaults" and all folder and file labels will use the same font size.
- mgkimsal 14y ago
  thanks. doesn't help for the sidebar text though. :/