New SFX: Smaller fonts

Posted by vogelpesto on Fri, 07/15/2005 - 01:22SFX Design Issues

I noticed that the font are all a bit smaller now. It's all harder to read now. (No, I'm not just getting old.) The number of comments under the posts are even a blur of anti-aliassing. I also noticed that the comma's are missing in the number of downloads. That doesn't make the reading easier too. (No, I'm not getting dyslectic.)


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FFX 2 fonts rendering smaller than previous versions
Submitted by zern on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 05:58.

I have noticed this also.

I have taken this screengrab that shows the before and after.

On the left is FFX 2, on the right is IE6. Prior to the 2.0 upgrade, FFX was rendering fonts the same size as IE. Now it is noticeably smaller.

I have used em as the CSS font size measure.

It _was_ a good thing having both IE and FFX treat font sizes the same way. Has this now changed? Sigh...

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Click Tools -> Options ->
Submitted by LouCypher on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 18:46.

Click Tools -> Options -> Content
and try to increase the font size.

~LouCypher

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Not about my needs
Submitted by zern on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 23:18.

Thanks for the tip. :)

I know about how to enlarge/reduce the font sizes to suit my own needs - that is not the challenge.

If FFX is going to start rendering font sizes differently from IE, it presents an annoyance for people who build websites as the two browsers now render typesizes quite differently. Font sizes that look good in one browser wont be the case in the other.

What I don't understand is - if it was fine before, why change something as fundamental as font size rendering? Assuming this was a deliberate change.

Browser-contextual stylesheets here we come? Yikes... sounds like the bad old days again.

(sorry for the moan - this IS annoying)


 

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Firefox text size
Submitted by bjorn on Fri, 07/15/2005 - 09:33.

Hi,
I'm sorry you are having problems with the type size.

In Firefox, an easy way of increasing the size is via View -> Text Size -> Increase (Ctrl & +).

Thanks,
Björn

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OK
Submitted by vogelpesto on Fri, 07/15/2005 - 09:44.

Thanks for your reply, Björn. I personally use the control + scroll wheel. But isn't it just a bit weird to have visitors increase the font size manually when reading this website?

- Save a tree, eat more woodpeckers.

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Fine for me
Submitted by bjorn on Mon, 07/18/2005 - 10:08.

Hi again,
Thanks for your reply.

The thing is that here at my desk the font size is fine. I use a 1400x1050 screen and I can read everything very clearly and such.

Could you perhaps send me a screen shot and info about your exact work station (OS version, screen res, Firefox version etc) and I can check it out further. bjorn AT spreadfirefox DOT com. Please quote http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/16835 in the email.

Great thanks!
/ Björn

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Email from Vogelpesto: Hi th
Submitted by bjorn on Tue, 07/19/2005 - 10:16.

Email from Vogelpesto:
Hi there Bjorn,

Thanks for looking into this. I send you this email as a reply to your
post: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/16835 and I attached a screenshot like you asked. I noticed the difference in font size after the downtime from last week.
My specs are:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3)
Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
- Screensize 1024 x 768 @ 32 bits - 96 DPI

Kind regards: Vogelpesto
P.S. Keep up the good work!

Reply:
Hi,
Thanks for the screenshot.

The image you sent me is the exact same thing I see on my screen. These font sizes have been in place for a couple of months.

We are having problems with the issue logging at the moment, but when that is resolved I can add issues for the number of downloads number and for the size of the tools text (reply etc). Do you also think the general text size needs to increase again?

Thanks,
Björn

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Two clicks bigger?
Submitted by vogelpesto on Tue, 07/19/2005 - 11:28.

Hi there. When I press control and scroll the mouse wheel two "clicks" to increase the font size all tekst is perfect. That's the same amount of zooming as with one "control-+". But since I'm only one SFx visitor I wonder what the others think.

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Okidoki
Submitted by bjorn on Tue, 07/19/2005 - 13:07.

Hi,
I'll add an issue for this when the issue tracking system is up and running again.

Thanks,
Björn

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