and a LJ/DW theme question -- Azz, maybe???

[mmegaera]

Maybe azurelunatic could help me? Or someone?

What are the LiveJournal and DreamWidth themes that come with the largest font sizes? The themes I've got now are Bold Dances for Dreamwidth and Pistachio Mint for LiveJournal. The font size appears on my monitor to be about 12 point for Bold Dances/DW, and about 9-10 point for Pistachio Mint/LJ, on the "largest" setting for each. My eyesight is getting to the point where neither of these is easily readable, and I would vastly prefer something that comes with a larger point size -- maybe 14, or even 16 would be better. 18 possibly, although that might be a bit large.

I can increase the zoom on IE10, but that enlarges everything including the pictures, which causes a scroll problem when I enlarge LJ in particular to the point where I can read it. I know Foxfire will allow me to enlarge text-only, but I really, really like being back (with my new computer) to where I don't have to remember which browser works best with which website, and I never did like using Firefox for some things so I wouldn't be happy using Firefox only. I'd rather make websites work on IE if at all possible.

When I'm typing messages, as I'm doing now, it appears as a nice 14-point not-so-nice-but-readable Courier.

Oh, and I have a grandfathered-in free no-advertising account on LiveJournal and a free DreamWidth account, so that needs to be taken into consideration, too.

Help?

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[azurelunatic]

I was able to go into http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=fonts with Dusty Foot: Bold Dances, and enter 16 for Size of base font, and pt for Units for base font size, and get nice large text.

This is for the journal area only, and doesn't affect the look-and-feel of the update area.

There's also the Easy Read style, which has some preset themes for easy reading.

Dreamwidth allows a single advanced-customization style per free account, where I believe any advanced customization is still paid-only on LJ.

[azurelunatic]

The Celerity, Gradation, and Lynx site skins use 100%-sized font from the browser default font size: http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display

[mmegaera]

Okay, that changed the profile page to something readable. Progress [g].

[mmegaera]

Neither of those things worked, alas. Changing the Dusty Foot:Bold Dances theme base font to 16 didn't change the font size when I went to my FL, and unfortunately, the color scheme of the Easy Reader (I couldn't find anything called Easy Read) is not conducive to, er, Easy Reading (it's brown on rust hence low contrast).

May I plead for more help, please?

And I don't know what I'm going to do about LJ. I hate how I'm tied there because there are still people there I don't want to quit reading. I wish I could just do some sort of LJ to DW RSS feed or something [wry g]. After all the problems I've had with them over the years, though, the last thing they're going to get from me is money.

[azurelunatic]

I figured out how to get the page to give me the theme search for everything on the EasyRead base style: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/?layoutid=110057&show=all

Styles is a black box that I poke intermittently and gingerly from time to time, hoping it'll do something fun. Most of the rest of the time the CSS terrifies me.

[mmegaera]

I know what you mean about CSS. I haven't even used them on my own website, although I know I probably should.

[azurelunatic]

I'm fine with inline CSS, and using semantic markup rather than display markup. I'm down with keeping the bits that define how any given class is going to display off in a file where it can be changed once (by someone who preferably isn't me) and forgotten about.

Using CSS to actually shape the page is where I start going "but -- but -- but -- cthonic horrors!"

[mmegaera]

Huh. Never mind. Apparently I needed to change the choice of units for base font size from em to px. Fascinating. Anyway, now it's too big, but I can fix that [g].

Thank you!

[azurelunatic]

Oh yay!