<p>Is the font size suddenly half of what it was earlier? Today? And the format seems different. Gee,this Coke tastes funny. I am really not that fond of change. I understand the inevitability of change. But I don't like it.</p>
<p>If in fact nothing has changed, and I'm deteriorating at a greater rate than even I appreciated, please forgive my post and go ahead and send the ambulance to 101 Geezer Hwy, Old Folks, Alabama.</p>
<p>The font size is much smaller, and I agree that the change is horrible.</p>
<p>I was just wondering about that-
I sign on sometimes and the font is large about 12-14pt
next time I sign on it is 10-12pt but this looks like 7-or 8 pt!
I hate all the crap on the sidebar too</p>
<p>Thank you NSM, I am saved. I stared at that screen like a dolt for 2-3 minutes trying to focus either my eyes or my thoughts. Glad I'm still only aging at my usual "year a month" rate.</p>
<p>Oh good someone mentioned it. I thought I was having senior-eye-tis.</p>
<p>It's not like I pay anything for the service and I hope our ...uhh... "comments" are not construed as looking a gift horse in the mouth-but GEE. I need a bigger screen.</p>
<p>On Mozilla Firefox you can set a default text size for all your pages. Go to the tools menu, then to options, then to general, then select fonts and colors, and there is a field where you can fill in a desired font size. I find out in a HURRY which sites are well designed by seeing which sites wrap to a correct layout with my preferred font size set. I refuse to strain my eyes while computing. There is probably business for some pesky lawyer in suing sites that don't allow easy font resizing, under the Americans with Disabilities Act or something like that in state law.</p>
<p>Thank goodness someone spoke up. A left-hand menu just showed up and everything shrunk. I was thinking I'd changed a setting somehow and just spent 15 minutes trying to debug it. Whew, now I can go make my SleepyTime tea and relax.</p>
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>I don't know what you guys are talking about.</p>
<p>Looks fine to me!</p>
<p>It's still at least 10x larger than my son's handwriting...</p>
<p>This is really straining my eyes.</p>
<p>The left-hand menu is called a sub-nav. Just in case anyone wanted the technical term...At one of my previous companies I used to volunteer as the middle-aged eyes to test layout and font size and widgets (those are the various graphical elements). Looks like they have also changed font? Didn't it used to be Verdana and now it is Ariel? Although I also have a middle-aged memory...</p>
<p>SBmom,Is your son one of those dudes that writes the Declaration of Independence on the back of a postage stamp?Is the light growing dim in here?</p>
<p>TheMom, who qualifies as a pro on this sort of thing, says that the line length is long for this size of the type. To these tired eyes, the type does indeed look smaller.</p>
<p>Cur, your PM box is full and I need to pass along some information for you. Let me know when you've tidied up and put on your reading glasses. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, my son's handwriting is minuscule. I joked on another thread that it's as though he's practicing to write his name on a grain of rice.</p>
<p>Someone should call a moderator!! Or, WE CAN GO ALL ADVANCED, ALL THE TIME!!</p>
<p>carolyn, fire away. I have cleaned my room.</p>
<p>Good night, this is a mess. As TheMom/TheDad pointed out, the line length is indeed too long for the type size. There is also not enough leading (that is "lead" as in the metal), which is the amount of space between lines. When your eyes try to go on to the next line (called the "return sweep" in the reading biz), you get lost as to which line to read next.</p>
<p>I am having trouble reading the new-and-not-improved version, and I have a huge monitor.</p>
<p>Too difficult to read for me, too.</p>
<p>Under the view menu I believe you can change the font size.</p>