How often do you zoom in to read text on your screen?

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For example, I have zoomed in 250% @ Hacker News to relax my eyes. As a matter of fact, I have zoomed in on most of the websites I visit, including Google.. The same goes for when I code or write text... The font size is too small for me - I can read the text on normal settings, but it's just too much eye strain. I get funny comments from my co-workers who say that the Google logo and text look too big.

a3n · Accepted Answer

Often. First choice is reader view, which gets rid of most "elegant" impediments to reading. If not available, then zoom. Or sometimes landscape.

beforeolives · Answer

I don't zoom in and out but now I keep some sites on 110% zoom all the time.For some reason my vision has considerably deteriorated over the past year. Once noticeably in the first couple of months of the pandemic and then I had another significant change for the worse in the past couple of months.

atsaloli · Answer

All the time! I'm at 200% right now, on HN. Too much eye strain otherwise. My vision got worse during the pandemic. I think I'm spending more time in front of my screen. I'm trying to take breaks but it's easy to just keep rolling.

PaulHoule · Answer

In and out all the time depending

cblconfederate · Answer

I use a low-resolution widescreen for the same reason. Zoom almost every site. Are there really people who can read in high density screens?

axegon_ · Answer

Hardly ever to be honest, with HN being the one exception where I'm constantly at 175%.

shadowythroaway · Answer

120% on HN. I have dry eyes from laser eye surgery.