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Comment by rob

9 months ago

Awesome, time to submit a ticket to WebKit to auto-adjust HN's default text size to 16px like everybody else instead of 12px. It made sense in 2007 when your resolution was 1024x768.

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zachrip  9 months ago

I am visually impaired so take this with a grain of salt but HN is so much better to read at 200% for me. Every time it reverts back to 100% I wonder how people spend so much time reading that small text.

coldpie  9 months ago

There's no one-size-fits all. Use your browser's Zoom feature. It will remember your settings. I find most websites have too big text, so I zoom to 66% on a lot of sites.

account42  9 months ago

> It made sense in 2007 when your resolution was 1024x768.

Yes and so it makes sense today because CSS pixels are resolution independent. If something worked on 1024x768 monitors in 2007 but is too small on your monitor today then the problem is with your settings not the website.

  • rwalle  9 months ago

    So why does HN text look so small under default settings on the desktop, and I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size on other websites (that require no special treatment)? Am I using the browser wrong, or something is not quite right with HN? I am inclined to think the latter.

    • wruza  9 months ago

      I always need to zoom 125-130% on all sites on top of 125% desktop system zoom and HN needs no special treatment. E.g. wikipedia is basically the same.

      Anyway, you can set [default] zoom once and enjoy.

      Unless you’re in a browser in which no one uses that per-site zoom feature cause it’s not implemented cause no one uses it. In this case, you can embrace the simplicity or use StyleBot.

    • rob  9 months ago

      2560x1440 and ~12px on HN looks incredibly small.

      I just switched the resolution to 1024x768, and now the same ~12px is "larger" and easier to read without needing to increase my browser zoom.

      There's an obvious visual difference between the two.

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