I dunno how I ended up there, but I found myself on the wikipedia entry for the name of Japan (Nihon?) which has a lot of Chinese and Japanese script.

It looks very cramped in whatever my default font size is, and a lot of the detail seems difficult to pick out. Particularly in the (I assume) traditional Chinese. Example: 大清帝國

Which got me wondering about font size. Do users of these scripts have different defaults? Or is it just because I’m not used to reading it?

  • talEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Might also be that typical display resolution differs around the world to some degree.

    Here’s a screenshot of Netscape Navigator back around 2000.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Irix_Netscape451.png

    That’s kind of obnoxious to read on my phone screen at 1:1 in 2025. Same software package I once used, just that screens have changed.

    Or age of typical user’s eyes in a language region. I mean, I’ve slightly bumped up font size over the years in terms of what’s comfortable onscreen as I’ve gotten older.