Wikipedia:User experience feedback/font size

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While all other programs appear at the same font size as before, Wikipedia now comes up annoyingly larger. The two windows on this screenshot are exactly the same size, but contain different amounts of information. Here is the information you asked for:

Google Chrome version 36.0.1985.125 m

Samsung monitor with settings: display 1. S24B240, resolution 1920 x 1080

Gateway computer running Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1

Font size in Google Chrome is set to medium.

Thank you.

The font size is too small, please provide a mechanism to increase font.

I barely am able to read the feedback screen. I only experience this tiny font on your website.

Please enlarge font.

the fontsize for wikipedia (and for no other programs/websites on my computer) changed to become very tiny on 10.14-14

My system:

Goggle Chrome v 38.0.2125.104

15.4" screen (1440 x 900)

MAC OS x Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

Font size : Medium

Johan Kahlstrom

Suddenly yesterday font on site went to size 32, which causes severe overlapping, even at full screen. All other websites, including other Wikimedia sites have not changed. Wikipedia has become useless.

Win 7 Pro, Sp 1

Firefox Ver 36 Settings:

-Font Size 16

-"Allow sites to choose font size" checked. Unchecking makes no difference in Wikipedia font size.

Monitor is 23" 1920x1080

Thanks for any help,

John

browser name and exact version number

MozillaFirefox 37.0.2

screen resolution and size: 1440x900; 19.1"

Operating system: Windows XP Pro, Service pack 3

font size settings in browser: Arial 18

Hello

Please change the current Arabic font to something easier to read.

Sincerely,

Browser: Iceweasel 38.3.0

Screen Res: 1920 x 1200, About 20.5 x 12.75 (24" diagonal)

Op Sys & Vers: Debian 8.2

Font Settings: Proportional is 16, and Mono-space is 12

The images: http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/clifcox/library/

The new font is obviously bigger.

In spite of your claim that the font size hasn't changed, you're still left with facts... Both the old and new instances you provided, the text is minuscule. It appears to be an 8 point font, on a 100% display. No other website I've visited displays this problem, only Wikipedia. I am using:

Browser name & Exact version: Firefox 42.0

Screen resolution and size: 1920 x 1080 27"

Operating system name and version number: Windows 10 Home 64 bit

Font settings in browser: Default Font Times New Roman 12pt

Font settings on monitor: 100%

Like many others, I have the tiny font problem with this browser. However, I noticed that Firefox reduced the page zoom to 80 percent on the Wkikpedia page while leaving it at the default 100 percent I use for everything else. Resetting it to 100 percent gave me fonts that appear smaller than the old Wiki but not dramatically. Could a problem with page zoom be an issue for others (including those reporting huge fonts)?

Sorry to disturb you but I got some troubles with Wikipedia the last time I logged on; the font size appears now MUCH smaller than before; how to change and readjust such size? Many thanks in advance

Greetings,

Sadly Wikipedia's big font fault extends to MS Edge, with text at 2-3x the size of any other site:

Device - Microsoft Lumia 950 XL Dual SIM

Screen - 5.7in, WQHD (2560 x 1440)

Browser - Microsoft Edge 38.14393.67.0, Microsoft EdgeHTML 14.14393

OS - Window 10 Mobile, version 10.0.14393.67

Font size settings in browser - The only font setting available in MS Edge is for its reading view, which Wikipedia does not make available.

And I can see no reason whatsoever to release my IP address. Please resist the temptation to do so.

Wikipedia is so difficult to read using Chrome that I've started avoiding using it.

This started around 9/23/15 I'd guess, but it could have been a week before that

Wikipedia looks good on Firefox (48.0.2 and 49.0.1, font = 100%) and Edge (font readable if at any size I tried)

• Windows 10 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3194496) - installed 9/30/2016 (But problem predates that by at least 5 days, which was the date of the prior auto update)
• Chrome Version 48.0.2564.116 m
• Hardware - GTX 950, 2 displays (1680 x 1050 and 1280 x 1024), Intel i5-5400
• Font Size = 100% - VOILA! Bumping it to 110% makes it usable

So I've figured out my solution. But maybe you should know - something is obviously wrong, IMO.

Thanks. I don't expect to hear from you, and I wouldn't even know how to check and see if this posting got a reply. But I love Wiki, and I want you to continue being fabulous.

Doug

While the page loads on Android, font size conforms to what is set up in the device settings (e.g. large) -- then, when the page finishes loading, font size snaps back to that fixed microscopic size.

I take it as proof for exceptionally idiotic moronism that this can't seem to be fixed for years and years with one of the premier sites of the entire web.

Fuck you suckers, until this is fixed!

PRINT TOO SMALL OR FONT

Hello,

I've been a supporter of Wikipedia and I have had a serious problem for the past year or more.

I have an Android Samsung Note 3 device and have the font size set to extra large for readability. However Wikipedia is one of the only websites I visit where the text is so small it displays at half the standard size or smaller. It's simply unreadable. This is while using Chrome on Android.

I have tried a different browser and it displayed properly but Chrome is my favorite so I want to stick with it.

There are no other large media websites that have this issue in Chrome so I wonder what's going on.

Thanks

OS: Windows 10

Browser: MS Edge

Font inside the editbox is very small. Font renders fine on rest of the page. Is there a setting or css snippet I can add to vector.js to make it 'normal'?

Thanks

अभय नातू (talk) 01:55, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

For some unknown reason you have reduced the font on my wiki pages to a point where it is almost unreadable.

This 'user experience' change you made is unacceptable and arrogant.

You need to come up with an easy way to undo what you have done.

This type of incompetence is why I never have and never will respond to your begging for money!

I only discovered by accident that I could remove notifications by clicking on them individually. There is nothing in the UI to indicate this. Consider putting in a 'X' or 'Delete' button in the upper right or left corners of the individual notifications.

Thanks,

Matt

All of the text is in a very small font size.

In the old layout the font size is much bigger.

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (64 bit)

The browser is Mozilla Firefox Quantum 61.0.1 (64 bit)

Screen resolution is 1280 x 1024.

This problem occurs only for Wikipedia in combination with Firefox.

All other sites have normal font sizes in Firefox.

I tried Opera.

In this browser the fonts have normal sizes.

I am also using Firefox on Android and IOS.

On these devices everything is normal.

Problem solved

I changed the size for the default font from 10 to 16.

I can barely read the articles in Wikipedia. Apparently this is a problem for a lot of people.

Here is the information you ask for.

Google Chrome version 73.0.3683.103

Macbook 13.3 inch 2560x1600

MacOS MOJAVE 10.14.4

Font setting: Medium

Firefox 70.0.1

Windows 10

Dell computer

For some reason the font size on my Wikipedia on my iPhone is enormous it has really put me off using it

I would personally like to see an increase in size in the general size of Wikipedia font from its current size to the size it was a few weeks ago. I am a constant user of Wikipedia and find it very useful for several projects which require research, but have recently found it more difficult to read since the font size was made smaller, meaning I have had to read the various texts several times over, meaning my work often takes longer to complete as a result. My feedback is that ultimately I preferred the larger size which was used until very recently. Thank you :)

i have tried safari and chrome, and the font is too, too small. there needs to be a way to enlarge the font, especially for older readers.

I can't get wikipedia to stop using comic sans. I changed my CSS, and when the page loads, it follow the CSS, then changes to Comic sans for no reason! What's wrong? No matter what device I use, it wants to use comic sans.

Why Wikipedia page doesn’t fit iPad or iPhone page. The lines go out of the border when zoomed. When page is not zoomed the font is too small, even fixed to medium with browser. Is there anyway to fix it?

I have already donated money three times to Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia. But it is usable only on computer. Why?

FV

I am using the legacy Vector skin on a laptop with 1920x1080 screen. The size of the font used in the editing area is way too small. How How can I increase it, without increasing the font used? I did not see that item in my User preferences.Jorge Stolfi (talk) 02:26, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

font too big

I use desktop mode wikipedia on safari on an ipad. Normally it fit well. Recently its getting too big (as i just got in the page) that i have to scold left and right to see the whole page. 2A02:8108:96C0:4A4:28AD:4761:1716:41FA (talk) 14:12, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

:I have the same problem on my iPad since 1 to 2 weeks, so it's not just you. I'd be very grateful for a fix to this bug. The text size is suddenly easily double that of my MacBook (both using Safari) and there seems to be no easy way of changing it. 2003:E2:BF4B:3990:A4DE:D0D3:CA82:626A (talk) 15:20, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

font size too smaill to read 220.158.158.206 (talk) 16:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

The global standard for the tamil font is archaic and not reader friendly at all. In fact, it's quite jarring. Perhaps, it's time to change it to something more user friendly.

Hoping for a quick reply. 103.3.164.72 (talk) 03:07, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Teeny tiney display 71.41.188.250 (talk) 05:24, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Lettering and the front are extremely small now. I have to enlarge by spreading the screen to read it which makes it very difficult 2600:1700:1F64:D10:946B:2990:C5DA:BA65 (talk) 08:03, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Browser: Google Chrome (Android mobile app) Chrome 115.0.5790.138

Operating system: Android 10

Screen resolution: 1600 × 720 (my phone is the standard 6 inch phablet)

The font in Wikipedia got massively big. This problem does not appear in other apps or even in other sites in Chrome. Only Wikipedia. My system font is set to the lowest. My Chrome font size is 100%.

Please help me!

Python Drink (talk) 23:52, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello,

I'm on a pixel8 pro, using Chrome, Edge and Firefox. I don't use or plan to use the Wikipedia app.

My device font settings are set to large, my browser settings are set to 150% magnification, and although that seems to work across the apps and sites I use, Wikipedia articles (all pages) remain the default size.) I haven't figured out what's causing it, and Google search has only resulted in unanswered help threads, or recommendations to use the mobile app.

There's nothing I can do besides pinch/zoom to read Wikipedia, and I assume that's not the intended experience. I wanted to report this issue in case it's something a quick fix or some easy setting I can apply.

All the best 2600:1700:B2F0:5510:EDB6:3F85:81C0:E30D (talk) 23:25, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

I am using Google Chrome Version 120.0.6099.217 (Official Build) (64-bit) through Windows 10 on a Samsung laptop with an a plug-in large display monitor.

The font used in the headings of Wikipedia (as demonstrated by the New System version of the 'Knowledge' article) are tall, narrow and nearly illegiblae. The 'Old System' demo provided by wikipedia is perfect, in old Arial as it has been for over 20 years. What has happened and what do I do. I've reset Chrome several times but it makes no difference.

What have you done, and why?

JSD Cape (talk) 14:01, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

When I zoom in on a Wikipedia page, the text in the header, footer, and left sidebar get larger, but the text in the actual article remains tiny. This started about two weeks ago. I have not noticed any problems with any other websites.

When I compare the two layouts at the top of Wikipedia:User experience feedback/Fonts, the old layout works like it used to but the new layout has this same problem.

• browser: Safari Version 18.3 (20620.2.4.11.5)
• screen: 24-inch (4480 × 2520)
• MacOS Sequoia 15.3

Zuckyd1 (talk) 19:52, 9 February 2025 (UTC)