Ask PG: Will you increase the font size?

2 points by dgunn 14y ago ↗ HN

Anytime a lot of reading is going to take place, fonts should probably not be rendered smaller than 14px high IMO. 16px would probably be better. I'm not a designer. But I read a lot of HN and I hate having to zoom in because I just have to zoom back out after HN links me out.

Surely I'm not the only one having trouble reading this.

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there 14y ago ↗

use something like stylish and override the style sheet

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/?src=...

i use it to remove the gray background: http://i.imgur.com/7tR8r.png

dgunn 14y ago ↗

That's not a bad solution. But doing things like that should be a last resort. It's just really easy to change the styles on your website to make it more readable. So I'll see if it gets changed. Maybe there's good reason to keep it this way that I'm not seeing?