Font Sizes Poll

Hi, just wondering if there's any feedback on font sizes.  The size is even smaller in the editor boxes as one types:

Also, the code text size is tinier than normal text (see screenshot below). There seems to be about 130 columns for the code, but even a slight (10%) increase will still allow more than 110 columns for code, which is still a very good amount for typical code widths:

The colour for comments is really faded, the other syntax elements are clearer.

Is there any plan to sort out fonts and font sizes? Right now it just looks weird with having to typing in large while others type in "normal" font sizes, neither are fit since one is too large and one is too small, (and the large looks strange in comparison with heading sizes too), with everyone trying their own methods for trying to improve readability.

shabaz said:

Is there any plan to sort out fonts and font sizes?

Right now I'm waiting for a fix to be put in place for the <h> tags being incorrect, which will affect more than what members have embedded in their content, it'll affect the site theme as well.

What did you think of the ruler measurement photo's I made in comparison to the ones you made? Looks like there's a size discrepancy there in the physical size of how it's rendered and that's probably the case across a lot of screens.

shabaz said:

Is there any plan to sort out fonts and font sizes?

Right now I'm waiting for a fix to be put in place for the <h> tags being incorrect, which will affect more than what members have embedded in their content, it'll affect the site theme as well.

What did you think of the ruler measurement photo's I made in comparison to the ones you made? Looks like there's a size discrepancy there in the physical size of how it's rendered and that's probably the case across a lot of screens.

Hi Christopher,

From your ruler measurements, the height looks like 2.5 mm for the uppercase character. Increasing by 20% would change that to 3 mm, which I can't see being an objection for those with setups similar to yours, whereas it will improve things considerably for those with setups that display text smaller. From the earlier comparisons, even a 10-15%% increase makes a big difference, and merely brings the site into line with other popular sites, but 120% is still in line with other sites.

For this comment, I have used that same method that Jon describes, to set to 120%, so it seems that the change could be trivial, if the editor could automatically use that same method that the 'Larger' format uses, but just dialed to 120% instead of the 150%.

I took a look at Amazon, since their text very readable, and that is the sort of thing where a user has to concentrate a lot too. The difference is huge, for the normal text, and for the code rendering. Their text sizes would be a nice goal (it seems about the same view as the 120% text, but I could try to measure it), since they must have spent many years fine-tuning and determining the optimum sizes, it looks incredibly readable in comparison.

The screenshot below shows the default element14 font compared with AWS.

Just as an aside, AWS have CSS for tips and 'important' boxes in different colors, and these would allow a lot more people to better explain their content. Jan uses a 'Tip' kind of rendering for his introductions to blog posts. If there was such CSS, I think others would use it too, for intros or summaries, or within the content, wherever the usual bold or italic isn't sufficient. It would be nice to see the Formats menu containing the extra options, to render content for Tip and Important intent (and probably others, but these looked the most useful). Anyway, that's not as important as text sizes currently, it's a nice-to-have.

Test test (the text on this line is at 100%).