Scaling of fonts in Firefox results in too small fonts
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	Jul 16 2010, 11:34 AM

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...or the two stolen pixels.

With the vector-skin it's hard to setup bigger fonts for text body . Even with 18px one get's only 14px (rounded). And my convinient setting was 17px resulting in 16px font size on MonoBook. The Table below lists the scaling result depending on settings.

127%*x-small = MonoBook
0.8*medium = Vector

medium° | x-small | 127%*x-small | 0.8*medium
12px | 9px | 11.43px | 9.6px
13px | 10px | 12.7px | 10.4px
14px | 10px | 12.7px | 11.2px
15px | 10px | 12.7px | 12px
16px | 10px | 12.7px | 12.8px (default setting)
17px | 12.75px | 16.1925px | 13.6px (=14px)
18px | 13.5px | 17.145px | 14.4px (=14px!)

°medium = browser setting

Since target size is 13px it would lead to more comfortable configuration options when setting scaling factor to 13/16 = 0,8125.

By the way google search uses small for scaling textbody, which gives best results in upscaling fonts, also it's less predictable what exactliy is happening.

Should affect opera, chrome and safari as well, but on IE there is no way in setting font size directly by numbers.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Jdlrobson	T65549 Vector Typography Refresh (tracking)
		Resolved		None	T26402 Scaling of fonts in Firefox results in too small fonts

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:10 PM

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Menner created this task.Jul 16 2010, 11:34 AM

font size:small; on diffrent browsers

medium | Opera | FireFox
---------+--------+-----------
14px | 12px | 12px
15px | 12px | 13px
16px | 13px | 13px
17px | 14px | 15.117px
18px | 15px | 16.017px

Could you please fix that at least for the body object.

#bodyContent {
font-size:0.8125em;
}

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

Is this still a problem? Vector has been about for a while now as the default skin so I'd imagine issues should have been fixed.

Good questions. Counting pixels of a screen shot shows that scaling font size on FF12 does quite well. But styles in vector didn't change in that point. FireBug still gives the same calculated values. Maybe rendering or rounding has changed.

FireFox 12.1
medium° | 0.8*medium
17px | 13.6px (=14px)
18px | 14.4px (=15px?! counted)

In my opinion styles still should be set to 13/16 = 0,8125.

Biezl:

I think this bug is implicitly fixed by the typography refresh. The #bodyContent font-size has been changed to 0.875em (which gives exactly 14px if medium is 16px).

Krinkle updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 5 2015, 2:16 AM

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In T26402#287882, @Entlinkt wrote:

I think this bug is implicitly fixed by the typography refresh. The #bodyContent font-size has been changed to 0.875em (which gives exactly 14px if medium is 16px).

Agreed. Closing.

Quiddity removed Quiddity as the assignee of this task.Jan 5 2015, 6:15 PM

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