It’s designed to be more legible in miniature, like on the tiny screen of an Apple Watch, and hold its own in large-scale applications like gigantic billboards. The new version, Helvetica Now, updates each of Helvetica's 40,000 characters to reflect the demands of the 21st century. Now, Monotype has given Helvetica a face-lift, in the hopes that it can restore some of the magic to the iconic typeface. Apple followed suit in 2013 with its own font. Google stopped using it in 2011, in lieu of a custom font that looks a lot like Helvetica, but better. Major companies, which had used Helvetica for years in branding and other materials, had begun to eschew the typeface. The whiff of Helvetica had begun to stink. Why do or did they do this? I have pretty good vision too.A few years ago, Nix and others at Monotype decided a change was due. i can change other things as with theme, color, background,
I wish i could mark one of these helpful, but as of apr 22 or 23, 2017 the update or upgrade thing has moved or changed or deleted that method to increase the icon, pallette, menu task bars sizes. if it could handle video better, i would drop all my microsoft OS. I use the cortana, cant even find any 'font size' in the stupid thing not there. I started with the preview/insider program over 2yrs ago,Īnd i railed and cried about the dumbing down, making an ok win7 far less so they can fit the OS on a 16gb pocket size whatever and forgetting about the home computers with plenty of storage to house the stuff that is not even an option, gone. so, all i hve is the option to get 125% everywhere? it is pushing the icons off the screen, and is totally unacceptable. I had used the top suggestion with the limited ability to increase font size, not font family any longer, just the size in icons, menu palletteĪnd such. So, now the fonts are so small, screen fonts, or text or whatever they changed the name and location to.beats me. my computer had been down, psu blew with constant reboots from the unintended/forced win7=>win10 change
I just did the most recent win10upgrade, i think they call it. You simply cannot get a good quality picture on a cheap computer. Local center will have resources I cannot provide here.Īs for fonts getting blurry when they are enlarged, that has more to do with the quality of the computer, its screen and video card than it does with the operating system. That's not to say I won't offer more help if you need it, but your They will be able to help you find solutions specific to your needs. Rather than trying to answer your questions on a blog like this one, I suggest you look for a local low vision center. But my solution may not serve you, as there are a wide variety of visual challenges and there is no one size fits all solution. No doubt they have their own reasons for doing so, but they don't serve users very well. For seemingly perverse reasons Microsoft has moved around a lot of standard functions. Stuff could be found where you expected it.
Still, Windows 7 is/was more like the old Windows where
But it's easier in Windows 10 than it was in Windows 8, which I found to be a nightmare and a half. And, frankly, in my experience, it doesn't work as well. Of Windows to increase the font display size. Admittedly it's not as easy as it once was in earlier versions
I explained in my post above how to enlarge the system fonts on screen. It's the magnification of the fonts on screen that you need to know about. The location of the fonts won't do you any good.