1600x1200 and font sizes on CRT monitor

[DragonFire]

Could someone please help me get my text in windows and mozilla to look right?

I know you have to chage the dpi from 96 to 120 but no matter what size I make the differnet windows fonts, it never looks right.

So if some of you 16x12ers could list what fonts and sizes you use for windows and mozilla that would be great.

As for mozilla, there are like 8 differnet settings/fonts to change. If you could list everything you changed that would be a great help.

Thanks for your time....

 

[kylebisme]

I use default fonts, but if you hold ctrl and roll your mouse wheel you can quickly scroll between different settings.

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

Well, in internet explorer its under view, then text size. I'm not sure on mozilla. And in windows, right click desktop, properties, appearence, then font size and pick something

 

[Gnoad]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
I use default fonts, but if you hold ctrl and roll your mouse wheel you can quickly scroll between different settings.

WHOA! I love learning simple things like that! Thank you!

 

[SonicIce]

Try 150 dpi? Here's a little rule I made up: divide your horizontal resolution by 10.66666666666666666666666666666 to get a good looking dpi. For instance: 1600/10.66666=150dpi and it should look nice. Or, if u use 1280x960: 1280/10.66666=120dpi. I guess it's true for 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions but I don't know. My monitor sucks so I havent been able to test my theory on high resolutions.

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I run @ default sizes (19" monitor)

-D'oh!

 

[DragonFire]

Originally posted by: SonicIce
Try 150 dpi? Here's a little rule I made up: divide your horizontal resolution by 10.66666666666666666666666666666 to get a good looking dpi. For instance: 1600/10.66666=150dpi and it should look nice. Or, if u use 1280x960: 1280/10.66666=120dpi. I guess it's true for 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions but I don't know. My monitor sucks so I havent been able to test my theory on high resolutions.

Thank you for the info, tho in XP the closes to 150dpi I can get is 144 but I will give that a try and see what happens.

And thank you for at least posting something useful!

 

[Peter]

Windows XP lets you scale the dpi to real-world size somewhere in the Advanced pages of Display Properties. Adjust that properly, and then take the dpi value you found into Mozilla's font size adjustment.

 

[yhelothar]

144dpi would be HUGE.
Try turning on cleartype.

 

[Peter]

144 dpi wouldn't necessarily be HUGE. Some notebook displays do have that resolution, and if you're running a 19" CRT at 1600x1200 you're coming close as well (I measured 130).

 

[steveox]

I have a 19" and i use 96 with 16x12? that's not normal? i've never bothered with changing the DPI settings

 

[Peter]

19" diagonal, so you have around 18" viewable area on a modern monitor, less on an old one (like mine).

4:3 tube, pythagoras applied, viewable width is 4/5 the diagonal.

You got 14.4 inches there. So you're around 112 dpi.