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0 pointsprmoustache2y ago0 comments

How can simple black on white text with a lisible font be hard to read?

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It doesn’t adjust to my screen size. So in portrait mode I have sentences with 80 characters per line that are 5 points wide.

That’s barely possible to read on a high dpi screen, but fairly uncomfortable.

prmoustacheOP2y ago

I understand some websites are doing lots of funky stuff, but at this point the issue is on your particular client if it cannot zoom bare text correctly and smoothly. Any decent client should be able to allow you to zoom it so that you can maximize those 80 character column to the width of your phone screen in protrait mode regardless of font size and dpi.

Aachen2y ago

Try it if you don't have a perfect 100% vision (20/20 this is called in USA I think?) and have a phone that fits in a normal pocket

Optimal reading width for speed/comprehension is also fewer than 80 characters afaik. I think different sources I read years ago were undecided whether it's closer to 60- or 70-character lines. Either way, rescaling when there is no ASCII art or position-dependent characters seems rather basic and <pre> disallows that

prmoustacheOP2y ago

I am using prescription glasses. That is what they are for. If you are using yours and still can't read small text, you need a visit to your optiometrist and get new ones.

hollerith2y ago

What about us poor slobs whose vision is less than perfect where the 80-character line is too small even when it takes up the entire width of the display? The way zooming is implemented in the mobile browsers, we must horizontally scroll back and forth for every line we read.

prmoustacheOP2y ago

I am using prescription glasses. That is what they are for. Maybe you should use yours?

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Aeolun2y ago

It doesn’t adjust to my screen size. So in portrait mode I have sentences with 80 characters per line that are 5 points wide.

That’s barely possible to read on a high dpi screen, but fairly uncomfortable.

prmoustacheOP2y ago

Aachen2y ago

Try it if you don't have a perfect 100% vision (20/20 this is called in USA I think?) and have a phone that fits in a normal pocket

prmoustacheOP2y ago

I am using prescription glasses. That is what they are for. If you are using yours and still can't read small text, you need a visit to your optiometrist and get new ones.

hollerith2y ago

prmoustacheOP2y ago

I am using prescription glasses. That is what they are for. Maybe you should use yours?

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