PSA: in case you were wondering . . .
Oct. 4th, 2008 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThis question has cropped up a couple times in comments, so I figured I should put an answer where everyone can see it:
The text on this blog is set at 16 point. That's on purpose. My old enormous CRT monitor recently bit the dust and has been replaced with a gorgeous Dell flat panel, which has a much higher native resolution than the CRT ever dreamed of. At that resolution, I need a font this big in order to be able to read it without knotting my spine into a cunning spiral macramé. (Ocular albinism: it isn't really about farsighted or nearsighted; it's never being able to get the focus sharp enough.*)
In other words, this blog is optimized for me to read it comfortably. The rest of you are just along for the ride.
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*Mind you, this is purely a hypothesis based on what seems to be the difference between my eyesight and other people's. I've never NOT had this pair of eyes. It's only in (frequently implicit) comparison--as for example people wondering why the font on this blog is so large--that I notice a problem.
The text on this blog is set at 16 point. That's on purpose. My old enormous CRT monitor recently bit the dust and has been replaced with a gorgeous Dell flat panel, which has a much higher native resolution than the CRT ever dreamed of. At that resolution, I need a font this big in order to be able to read it without knotting my spine into a cunning spiral macramé. (Ocular albinism: it isn't really about farsighted or nearsighted; it's never being able to get the focus sharp enough.*)
In other words, this blog is optimized for me to read it comfortably. The rest of you are just along for the ride.
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*Mind you, this is purely a hypothesis based on what seems to be the difference between my eyesight and other people's. I've never NOT had this pair of eyes. It's only in (frequently implicit) comparison--as for example people wondering why the font on this blog is so large--that I notice a problem.
