I am a web developer. I remember reading some time in these past few weeks that it’s good to design a site such that if the user zooms in/out (eg. by pressing cmd+/-), things still look reasonably good. It’s like a form of responsive design, except instead of responding to the width of the viewport your design responds to the zoom level.
Anyway, since reading this, I started zooming in a lot more. For example, I just spent some time reading a post here on LessWrong at a 170% zoom level. And it was a lot more comfortable. I’ve found this to be a helpful little life hack.
My whole UI is zoomed to 175% (though Gnome calls it “scale”) which I much prefer to what you describe because zooming with cmd+/- in the browser applies only to the current web site, so one ends up repeating the adjustment for basically every site one visits.
(I don’t know how to zoom the whole UI to 175% on MacOS without making everything blurry, but it can be done without blurriness on Linux/Wayland, ChromeOS and Windows. Also HiDPI displays are the norm on Macs, and some people on HiDPI displays don’t mind the fact that MacOS introduces blurriness when the scale factor is other than 1.0 or 2.0.)
I found LW’s font size to be a little bit small but I have managed to get used to it. After reading your message I think I will try going to 110%, thanks. (170% is too large I feel like I’m reading on my phone on landscape)
I am a web developer. I remember reading some time in these past few weeks that it’s good to design a site such that if the user zooms in/out (eg. by pressing cmd+/-), things still look reasonably good. It’s like a form of responsive design, except instead of responding to the width of the viewport your design responds to the zoom level.
Anyway, since reading this, I started zooming in a lot more. For example, I just spent some time reading a post here on LessWrong at a 170% zoom level. And it was a lot more comfortable. I’ve found this to be a helpful little life hack.
My whole UI is zoomed to 175% (though Gnome calls it “scale”) which I much prefer to what you describe because zooming with cmd+/- in the browser applies only to the current web site, so one ends up repeating the adjustment for basically every site one visits.
(I don’t know how to zoom the whole UI to 175% on MacOS without making everything blurry, but it can be done without blurriness on Linux/Wayland, ChromeOS and Windows. Also HiDPI displays are the norm on Macs, and some people on HiDPI displays don’t mind the fact that MacOS introduces blurriness when the scale factor is other than 1.0 or 2.0.)
I found LW’s font size to be a little bit small but I have managed to get used to it. After reading your message I think I will try going to 110%, thanks. (170% is too large I feel like I’m reading on my phone on landscape)