My eyes don't work in HD !

A found this discussion at raspberrypi.org: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=10932

You might go to the Google search box at the raspberrypi.org home page and enter "cmdline font size".

Edit: I'll have to give this a try myself some time.  That initial Atrix font is teeny-tiny.

Just out of curosity, have any of the folks here who find the fonts too small reached that 40-something age where your eyes change and the opticians start talking about you needing reading glasses ?

I'm getting there myself - having difficulty reading the numbers off the top of todays small IC's while wearing my normal glasses. 

However what I find with screens, especially LCD's, is that I actually want a smaller font but one that's pixel perfect (i.e. not a vector font) and without any anti-aliasing nonesense making it look even more fuzzy.

To that end I've just spent half an hour trying to persuade that awful gnome-terminal (on a BBB) to use a decent non-vector font and failed miserably

Well, I don't remember passing 40, but I do remember when my youngest child did.

Malcolm, I hope I'm still as interested as you are if I get to the point where I have kids that age!  Hope I still have eyesight good enough too

Malcolm, I hope I'm still as interested as you are if I get to the point where I have kids that age!  Hope I still have eyesight good enough too

I find my arms aren't long enough... and then all the fonts are too small.

It affects different people differently, and unfortunately once you start it doesn't stop.

Lighting has a huge impact as well.

At work we have a number of screens that display text and probably looked great on a 30inch screen when the software developers did it, but is tiny on an 18 inch screen.

@Malcolm

I like that answer ....

Mark

Mark Beckett wrote:

 

It affects different people differently, and unfortunately once you start it doesn't stop.

Lighting has a huge impact as well.

I bought myself one of these D22080D22080 a couple of years ago, one of the best things I've ever bought. Wish I'd done it a long time ago.  The 7inch diameter lens and daylight lamp make a huge difference from the older versions.

Selsinork

yes you are quite right.

These are a great device, we have something similar at work.

Ours unfortunately has distortion and an annoying habit of moving, but we do have some even larger metal based ones that are much older and imo much better.

I'm thinking of finding a really large magnifying glass, mounting it on a lamp arm, and adding high power leds around it.

For the younger readers ...listen to your mother about going blind ....

Maybe we could convince Dave to offer these out to us older visibly challenged people, and write about how we were able to tackle smd projects without breaking into a sweat.

mark

A bit o.t. but I'm with selsinork on the eyesight thing - speaking personally I'd rather have a screen on it's natural resolution and have tiny-but-crystal-clear-everything than bigger-but-fuzzy (or otherwise rounded because integers are awkward). Can not the font dpi just be resized whilst keeping the screen definition?

As an aside to those who might be feeling the years I have some 20+ year old integrated circuits in my parts bins and the screen printing is defo more legible on them than equivalent new parts!