Overriding web page font

Software
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Such faint font! And my font-correcting extension has no effect on it. Can’t deal with that.

EDIT: My comment was in reply to this:

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You can manually change the font size in Firefox Settings, or by about:config:

font.size.variable.x-western

The default value is 16.

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I’ve done that too, already. Lol.

I think some websites just make it so their fonts can’t be corrected.

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Two more solutions:

  1. Reader View, which has options to resize the font.
  2. Zooming in the webpage, which scales everything.
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Resizes, yes. Still faint, but better. But I avoid Reader View because it disables my privacy extensions, so I have no visibility into what’s happening in the background.

I don’t want to further digress from this thread topic, though.

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In Firefox, you can always use F12 / Inspector tab and a lot of patience to edit the style (or HTML) of any web page. For example, I have done that with this page in the Purism forum and the text of each of your posts is much larger than normal, while not interfering with any other layout or functionality aspects of the page.

Edit: Actually only the first paragraph of each post but with more effort could no doubt do the remaining paragraphs.

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Discourse has a dedicated setting for text size in Preferences → Interface:

Screenshot 2024-10-08 at 22-29-16 Interface - Preferences - FranklyFlawless - Purism community

Available values:

  • Smallest
  • Smaller
  • Normal
  • Larger
  • Largest
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