I haven't done any scientific measurements, but my experience with the sites which I visit and which are usually shared here is something like this:<p>* 80% have painfully small font-size: I need to view the site at 120%-140% zoom to be easily readable<p>* 15% have ok font-size: I can read it at 100% zoom, unless I'm tired (then 120% zoom will usually do the trick)<p>* 5% have large enough font-size which I can read regardless of my tiredness<p>Ok, some sites haven't changed their design in 10+ years, but I see the same when people here share posts from their personal sites, written recently. You would expect those people to "keep up with the technology" and care about readability.<p>How come the small font-sizes are so prevalent? Is there some reason I'm not aware of why people don't use larger font-sizes?
You are not alone:<p><a href="https://eggplant.pro/blog/make-things-easier-to-read-with-accessibility-bookmarklets/" rel="nofollow">https://eggplant.pro/blog/make-things-easier-to-read-with-ac...</a><p>The web is made by children hunched over macbooks in coffee shops and open offices.<p>If you can't read 8pt Helvetica, maybe it's time to give up the web and take up bridge.
I have that problem on desktop but not on mobile for some reason. That said, I generally use my browser’s reader mode in both contexts anyway because so many sites choose unergonomic font families.<p>Have you ever had a vision exam? My vision is good enough to get by without corrective lenses for almost any other activity, but they make a world of difference when reading on a screen all day, especially if you have even mild astigmatism.
My issue isn't with font size, it's with websites that are unnecessarily thin.
For some reason, especially with blogs, there's a habit of reducing the width of the text to a quarter of the screen width.
Isnt that issue totally fluid? I do not even know what zoom-level I am on.<p><pressing Control-+ , Oh it says +175% ><p>There you have it. You have wrong browser if it does not allow zoomin in and out at will. This browser is Google Chrome.