No, the grandparent comment resonates with me. I have good eyesight (when last tested, four years ago, it was better than 20:20) and use monitors with standard DPI on standard resolutions, and yet it suddenly strikes me that never in my life have I had to zoom out on a web page, and yet I frequently zoom in (including on Hacker News). Standard font sizes really are too small.
For Hacker News specifically: Verdana at 13px (12px for body text) was a fine choice at 72 dpi.
HN didn't exist in the 1990s, but its design principles are from that era. The look itself is a nice throwback, but the type size follows a technical constraint that no longer makes sense (it only made sense when CSS was nonexistent or very limited).
kibwen|8 years ago
dictum|8 years ago
HN, Google, DDG and Wikipedia (the mobile version is nicer) are the ones I can't use without setting to 125%.
[0] An upside of the mobile first trend?
EDIT: Eh, scratch that. Just noticed Github (125%) and Twitter (110%) are also on the list ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
dictum|8 years ago
HN didn't exist in the 1990s, but its design principles are from that era. The look itself is a nice throwback, but the type size follows a technical constraint that no longer makes sense (it only made sense when CSS was nonexistent or very limited).
tracker1|8 years ago