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Comment by okasaki | Hacker News Reader

I'm curious, why do so many pages (like this one) now have huge fonts and lots of empty space? That text is like... 3 times too big.

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Makes it easier to read.

I actually want to update our CSS to something better (PRs welcome!)

Initially I picked this theme because it looked really nice in Servo, but we support a lot more CSS now and one of the nicer themes should work well too. I know that the older This Week in Rust theme works in Servo (they recently switched to Bootstrap which mostly works, but has some quirks), and I've wanted to switch to that for a while. Never really sat down to do it, perhaps I should do that next.

Just set the font size, line height and margins to sane levels and it'll be fine

Here I set font-size to 1em, line-height to 1.2em and margins to 1em:

https://i.imgur.com/BXDrg2a.png => https://i.imgur.com/hqHFNaf.png

On behalf of the few over-50's on this site, we find the first example much easier to read.

I'm just about to hit thirty, but the first example is still _much_ nicer to read for me.

That's a bit too far. Just changing paragraph font-size to 1.2em would be enough: https://monosnap.com/file/2IbdkolMW8nVIF1cGsX75BeiwR5b7k.png

Please don't make the font smaller. It's nice to be able to read text without squinting.

You have to be kidding me? Their paragraph font size is literally the same as a level 2 heading by default. It hurts my head just looking at it.

It looks really good on mobile.

So the Servo window by default only takes up a quarter of the screen, which makes some sites behave more like mobile sites. I picked this theme because it looked nice on Servo, so it's looking nice on mobile as a consequence :)

> 3 times too big

I know you exaggerate, but I just tried zooming to 33%, and it's really hard to read, even on my 15 inch retina screen.

75% was nice, though.

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