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   Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 19:24:21 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

   ULT making the font bigger is more likely to be effective than changing to any particular font (same as for distance-based vision impairments, really)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 19:24:16 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dpk btw the font on your website is unusually small and i find it genuinely somewhat hard to read (which i probably wouldn't have brought up if you didn't make that exact observation in the text)

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 19:24:18 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     New blog post! I made the font size bigger on my slides to give a better presentation, and be more useful for dyslexic and vision impaired audience members https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-12-11-presentation-fonts.html

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 19:24:19 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     So I’m boosting font size by about 1.5x in many slides

     (Another advantage: encourages less text per slide!)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 19:42:20 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dpk some context

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 19:42:21 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark Bah, I thought 16px would be big enough (it’s been the default font size in browsers forever and is about the same size as UI text in most OSes); I was also trying to avoid adding a media query to have the font appear smaller with a narrower viewport for a reasonable line length on phones. I’ll try messing around with it later, thanks

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 20:01:30 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dpk i'm wondering if maybe it's just the font?

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 20:01:31 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark Hmm, the calculated font size for me on mastodon.social is 15 px (actually smaller! although you can’t compare directly with point size between different fonts at this level of precision). I wonder if the problem is that I declare the font size only in px, while Mastodon seems to have a reset declaration first. (This may be mid-2000s CSS trauma speaking, though.)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Dec-2025 20:46:44 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dpk yeah this is way better!

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Dec-2025 20:46:46 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark Okay, I boosted from 16px to 18px. It looks maybe a little too big to my eyes now (though probably I just got used to the old size and need to get used to the new one) – but I was pleasantly surprised that the line length didn’t seem too short when I opened it in the iOS Simulator, even without a media query. Thanks!

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Dec-2025 20:46:47 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark Yeah possibly