I’ve been reading my twin-brother Jonas and realised his blog’s font size is too small to read (from my iPhone).
That made me thinking, why do people make their texts appear small? For what reason?
Am I someone who has very poor eyesight? I don’t believe so. My eyes are weak, but mostly due to all my life watching at the computer screen, not because of genetics or some illness. I can see just fine, just not too far.
And the tiny text sizes make me angry.
- Why do people use them?
- Why would they want to cramp as much text as possible onto my screen?
- Are they afraid they wrote a long text?
- Are they afraid someone would actually read their text carefully and slowly?
It’s blowfish theme I took for my primary blog, I hate it for its default font size. And when you dare to make it bigger, the theme simply falls apart and looks much worse. I use it heavily modified as of now, but as soon as I’ll have my chance, I’m rewriting it completely.
What’s wrong with all of you, people? Are you yourself comfortable reading all these tiny texts you have on your websites?
My favourite design I produced so far is for my other project, bits. But this one, thoughts, it’s very similar. They both bear not tiny text size, and they are read just fine. (At least on my smartphones.)
Are they — my blogs, with the font sizes I chose — are they too big to read for all these people? Or are they, the other people, simply unaware of that? That their websites are difficult to read.
Interfaces
Nick, he used to issue tiny interface font for his iPhone 4S, back in the days. I used huge one instead. Just because I wanted to have less information on my screen.
I can understand him, tiny phone —
huge dick— over compensation. It’s recently that I persuaded him to actually go with the biggest Pro Max. (I’m rocking his Mini.)
But again, that was the interface font. It’s not that you read your interface. Once you used to it, you can remove most texts and even icons.
I’d love a cleaner look for my iPhone. I know that I have a email client at these coordinates of my desktop. I can click there no problem even if there’s no icon, no text, no nothing.
But texts that are supposed to be read, how would you read them, especially as a prolonged reading session, if they’re just unreadably tiny?
That’s a mystery to me. I don’t want to call the vast population of people incompetent. It’s not incompetence after all. But could that just be that people aren’t too aware? They might never thought this through thoroughly, you know.
I did, and I’m all-in for bigger texts in most situations. I think people just lack on skills of making it right. But sometimes I see really great examples, even in the real world around me. We’re getting better, as a humanity.
Evolution.