I was wondering if anyone knows any way of detecting whether a user has large fonts installed on their system. I recently designed a web site, but have since noticed that it looks a bit dodgy on Windows systems with large fonts installed. I was hoping that I might be able to detect the use of these fonts and then conditionally reduce the size of the font on the web pages. Any thoughts?
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Detecting Large Fonts
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Hi mate,
As far as I know, if you set it as px then the font size on the browser doesn't change them..!!
BUT!!
If a user has their browser set to large fonts it is probably for a reason, so if you reduce the size, yes they will see your page with a nice design but probably won't be able to read the text so what is the point?
If your page looks ok with normal fonts, I personally would leave it unless you are catering for disabled people which you are obviously not, otherwise you wouldn't be asking this..
Hope this helps Wullie
As far as I know, if you set it as px then the font size on the browser doesn't change them..!!
BUT!!
If a user has their browser set to large fonts it is probably for a reason, so if you reduce the size, yes they will see your page with a nice design but probably won't be able to read the text so what is the point?
If your page looks ok with normal fonts, I personally would leave it unless you are catering for disabled people which you are obviously not, otherwise you wouldn't be asking this..
Hope this helps Wullie
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