On: I’m Sick of Tiny, Tiny Type

[lee]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who generally surfs the web at 150% magnification.

I also have decent eye-sight and am 29, so I don't think it's an age related thing.

Anecdotally, I find reading large text to be a lot more comfortable. I don't have to strain my eyes to read.

[bane → lee]

I'm in the same boat.

This is a great post, at 100% zoom it was perfectly readable. HN by contrast gets zoomed habitually to around 150% on my desktop.

[Scene_Cast2 → lee]

Same here, 150%. I can't wait for an oculus rift or similar for reading text - text size won't be constrained by screen size anymore.

[radicalbyte → lee]

The vast majority of sites are designed for horrible low resolution devices - 1366x768 or 1024x768.

When viewed on the screens most people here are using, they're unreadable.

I find that 200% zoom works for Full HD screens (and is acceptable, if a little big, at 1680x1050)

[tomkarlo → radicalbyte]

It's this. If you look at the stats on the % of visitors to most web sites, 1280x1024 or 1024x768 (and the non-retina Macbook equivalent) remain the dominant approximate screen sizes, so developers optimize for them on the assumption that things will work ok for folks with bigger screens.

I can remember when we used to optimize for 800x600.

[csense → radicalbyte]

I usually keep my resolution low. 1366x768 is fine for everything I do -- including movies, gaming, and development.

The main reason I do this is to make the default font sizes for programs, websites, and OS's more readable without visual glitches or breaking layouts, as zooming has an unfortunate tendency to do.

[neltnerb → radicalbyte]

Interesting. I suppose that this makes some sense, but when I have a 27" 1920x1080 screen three feet from my face, it's still absurd.

I wish web designers would learn a thing or two from the writers of LaTeX.

[whathappenedto → lee]

Thank you for saying this. For years I have been slightly ashamed to be browsing at 150%. I occasionally get comments like "what's wrong with your CSS" when my friends are showing me their websites on my computer.

[flaviojuvenal → lee]

I need "Zoom: 175%" when reading Hacker News comments. My eye-sight is great, but reading larger fonts is much easier.

[clicks → flaviojuvenal]

Same here. 1080p on a 15" laptop. I can't read it (at least without getting profoundly annoyed) if it's anything less than 130%