Thread: View/use consistent actual font size
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Old 06-19-2022, 09:18 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by graycyn View Post
It would help where font size is either not specified or set at 1.00em/100%. Which is not THAT uncommon, I'm seeing that in many of my purchased ebooks, though not all.

Even with an oddball default font size, once discovering which number was right for reading in daylight on a title, I could then adjust my font larger at night for dark mode, but then easily be able to go back to my daylight setting the next morning. I have a good head for remembering numbers!

One can only hope that publishers will eventually make better ebooks, with more universal defaults for things like margin and font-size. I've got a library book now that's irritating me, because, when I wanted to read it last night with dark mode and the much larger text I need with that, I couldn't set left alignment on it. Ugh.
Think you are asking for something different to what we all thought. And something that doesn't match the example you gave with the light level. You sound like you are asking to be able to enter the actual value in a field somehow. Which, personally, I would find useless and a bit painful. For all of theses, including the light level, I just adjust to what feels comfortable at the time. That does mean that sometimes I use a slightly larger or smaller relative font size.

I will disagree on the number of books that I see with something other that 1em (or nothing specified) as the font size. I think that well over 50% of the books I see from the stores are like that. I assume that when I open a book purchased from Kobo that I will need to adjust the font.

And for my curiosity, you say you are adjusting the font for Dark Mode. How much? I don't use DarkMode but I occasionally read with a larger font when tired, but, that is always done by tapping the right arrow once or twice. You make it sound like you are using a significantly larger font size in Dark Mode so are tapping somewhere on the bar.
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