PSA: in case you were wondering . . .

[truepenny]

This 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.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Folks can always add "?style=mine" to the end of the URL to make it look like their own journal (which presumably they like to read).

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Or set their defaults to always show friends posts in their own style.

Which is what I've done -- long enough ago that I don't remember how to do it.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

There's even a handy firefox plugin to append ?style=mine automatically!

[blackmonkeymage.livejournal.com]

It is called Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108)

[ckd]

That's not even necessary any more, at least for Paid/Permanent accounts; there's a new preference to always show LJ pages in your style. (As soon as I heard about it, I turned it on.)

My style is designed to look reasonable in a desktop browser, but with tweaks so that it works well in the Palm and iPhone/iPod touch browsers as well.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

That's a good tip, ckd, but where is it located? How does one turn it on?

[ckd]

It's on the Viewing Options page, and it's called "View all journals and communities in your own style".

Check the box and then click on the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thanks!