What is it with the small fonts?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
February 2, 2020
4 replies
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Pet peeve. Was LR developed by a bunch of 20-somethings? The fonts are too small for my 60+ year-old eyes! I have font size set to large in Preferences>Interface. This problem occurs throughout. Develop module is terrible, the letters are gray on gray, there's not enough contrast. Library module too, casn't read the file names in the extended thumbnail. And the extensions, absurd forget it! Take a lesson from Bridge, and make these fonts so people like me can read them. My vision isn't that bad, it's 20-30 and i wear reading specs. Even the damn Preference Panel makes me squint. This is such an unnecessary mistake that has been made. At least make the font color white instead of gray, you're sacrficing readabilty for design, which is the same as bad design. If the Develop Module used tabs instead of lines you could make the font larger. Just sayin'. Please rethink this, Adobe.

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TimW

Participant

I share your frustration, not as someone with poor eyesight but as a normal user who is fed up with Adobe's obsession with tiny font sizes. It's not a problem unique to LR, and it's nothing to do with your computer or settings. It pervades all of Adobe's interfaces including their website, and very much applies to the latest versions of all these things. The fact that some (not all) of their products have settings which can increase the size in certain places is no excuse, I'm afraid. Other companies like Microsoft have mostly moved on from this ridiculousness; Adobe stands out these days for its barely-clickable button elements, squashed menus, 6px fonts and so on, combined with plenty of space which could easily have accommodated more accessible UI elements. These may have made sense when most people used an 800x600 screen but absolutely do not make sense now.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I don't have your Larger and Largest options. Wish i did.

In that case, you're running an older version of Lightroom.

The current version is Lightroom Classic 9.1, available by subscription only.

The Photography plan (20 GB), costing $10 a month, also includes Photoshop.

riskypotatoAuthor

Known Participant

No, am running 9.1.

johnrellis

Legend

"Thank you very much! I'm not going to mark this as the correct answer because i hope Adobe will take a long look at this problem."

Adobe product developers rarely participate in this forum and won't see your feedback. They want all product feedback posted in the official Adobe feedback forum:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightroom

Product developers read everything posted there and sometimes engage.

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