I am new to this SE site, and looking at the badges section, the font is hard to read. Is it possible to either change this font, or make it bigger?
Add a comment |
3 Answers
The fonts enumerated for the .badge CSS class:
+--------------------------+----------+---------------+ | Font name | Tested ? | Looks good ? | +--------------------------+----------+---------------+ | DejaVu Sans Mono | yes | yes | | Bitstream Vera Sans Mono | yes | yes | | Courier New | yes | no, too small | | Courier | yes | no, too wide | | Consolas | yes | yes | | Andale Mono WT | | | | Andale Mono | | | | Lucida Console | yes | yes | | Lucida Sans Typewriter | yes | yes | +--------------------------+----------+---------------+ (Tested on Linux with Firefox. If you have the other fonts installed, please edit this answer.)
For now, seems that Courier New is the one to blame. I suggest to remove Courier New and to move Courier as last font specified for .badge in all.css:
font-family:"DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono",Consolas,"Andale Mono WT","Andale Mono","Lucida Console","Lucida Sans Typewriter",Courier,monospace; - I guess I should have looked at the CSS...daviesgeek– daviesgeek2011-10-04 17:43:11 +00:00Commented Oct 4, 2011 at 17:43
- Actually I intended to address that "I suggest to" to the site management. I think this should be solved globally.manatwork– manatwork2011-10-05 07:04:03 +00:00Commented Oct 5, 2011 at 7:04
- The Mac fonts Menlo (especially) and Monaco are quite a bit closer to the "preferred" Vera Sans Mono than the current first likely fallbacks of Courier New or Courier.John Flatness– John Flatness2011-10-12 04:59:34 +00:00Commented Oct 12, 2011 at 4:59
- Courier only looks wide because of the peculiarities of Windows font rendering system.kinokijuf– kinokijuf2012-01-08 09:40:00 +00:00Commented Jan 8, 2012 at 9:40
- @kinokijuf, then Linux presents the same peculiarities. Note that I tested those fonts on Linux. I put together a small test table on jsFiddle.manatwork– manatwork2012-01-08 12:52:59 +00:00Commented Jan 8, 2012 at 12:52
- @manatwork I didn’t know Linux supports bitmap fonts.kinokijuf– kinokijuf2012-01-08 16:25:52 +00:00Commented Jan 8, 2012 at 16:25
With the recent design updates to the site, the badge font is now larger. See Site Design Updates for details.
While this doesn't address your feature request, it is a workaround: in all (modern) web browsers you can increase the size of the fonts on a page with the zoom command. In Firefox, for example, this is Ctrl+.
Alternatively, you could also use an extension like Stylish and write your own CSS snippet to override the default style.
- Yeah, I could do that. It's not completely unreadable, but somewhat annoying.daviesgeek– daviesgeek2011-09-03 22:18:28 +00:00Commented Sep 3, 2011 at 22:18