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Comment by abjKT26nO8

This font is gigantic. And the text is a bit too wide. It feels as if I had to do a marathon from left to right on each line.

I wish the web didn't have the possibility of styling its content and would only use standard options which would be customizable by users. E.g. as a webdev, you wouldn't be able to set the font face beyond "serif", "sans-serif", "monospace" and then everybody could just set those to what they like. Similarly, there would be no "font-size". You'd have to use semantically correct HTML tags and the user would choose the font size for these tags. I'm tired of 99% pages being unreadable. Reader mode is a hack.

EDIT: To clarify, the text on this page renders on my 4k screen with 170% scaling as ~31cm wide and each character is ~1cm tall.

And sure enough, the CSS responsible for this part contains "font-size: 22.4px;". That's beyond reasonable for normal body text.

parent abjKT26nO8 6 years ago

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