| "Why do I prefer larger font sizes?" My personal experience and opinion: With aging, I've found bigger fonts more pleasant as-a-whole to look at And, to digest. Not regarding bad eyesight, but I think it has something to do with age-related cognition changes and/or allowing oneself to notice parts of their life's little annoyances that are extremely simple to fix (ctrl+plus). "Why are fonts so small?" My guess: People who design, don't dare deviate from the norm. "What about the technical things?" Some of this is assume-work, some of it is knowledge:
Monitors provide their physical size to the operating system, which derive the used DPI from that, and the current resolution in use. This cannot be freely chosen.
The reason is that while font's do scale freely, raster graphics don't. And if the scaling is set such, that raster graphics don't scale pixel-perfectly, the result looks muddy. I think this combined with the fact that there can be widely differing physically sized screens, old non-scalable applications, and history of designing for something like 72 or 96 dpi results in.. well.. "safe font sizes". |