On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Klaus Bitto <<a href="mailto:klaus.bitto@gmail.com">klaus.bitto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Honestly, I don't understand why everyone loves small fonts. (Especially designers, as it seems.)</blockquote><div><br>I'm no designer, I'm a user. This has nothing to do with aesthetics. If you have a monitor that offers high resolutions, or you don't have a lot of exposure to Windows, then you probably don't realize how much larger fonts can seem in Ubuntu (and GNOME doesn't help, as there is a lot of padding in most themes).<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">When reading e.g. articles in firefox, the first I do is hit Ctrl+Num_Plus several times to increase all font sizes.<br>
I have good eyes, no glasses, but it's just much more comfortable to read larger fonts. </blockquote><div><br>As far as I know, changing GNOME's default font sizes will only affect Firefox's interface (dialogs, toolbars, options, etc) - websites won't be affected. You probably need to reduce your screen's resolution or font DPI.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In daily work, when I need to reach for an application's menu, I don't want to concentrate too much, either. <br>
Therefore, using smaller fonts for the sake of saving some disk space might degrade the ubuntu user experience badly.<br></blockquote><div><br>What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with conserving disk space. We're talking about having a sane default font size to conserve screen real-estate (very important if your monitor can't go beyond 1024x768, which is not as rare as you may imagine, even in 2008).<br>
<br>I also noticed that fonts seem to become even more enlarged when using "slight" hinting.</div></div><br>