Heads-up: font size adjustments

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A quick heads-up: We're about to adjust font sizes for some layouts.

We've been trying to make our layouts as accessible as possible, out-of-the-box. Too-small font sizes can cause issues for some viewers -- for users with low vision, or users using large screens with higher resolutions, for example -- so we'd like to make sure all our layouts respect the viewer's desired font size, rather than overriding their preferences.

We were able to do this for the majority of layouts, but we weren't always able to catch this especially with the earlier layouts. So we're going to fix this for the five remaining affected layouts: Bases, Blanket, Funky Circles, Sunday Morning, Transmogrified.

So what's going to change?

If you're using one of the layouts above, the font size for entries, etc, will likely become larger. We've tried to adjust the other font sizes (entry titles, journal titles), so that these are not super-huge in comparison to before, but some will likely also be larger than before.

If you're using one of the layouts above, but you have your own highly-customized styleseheet, and have the "use layout's stylesheet" option unchecked, then you won't see any difference at all.

ETA: If you've changed the font size, but not the font unit, you'll likely find that you have gigantic text. If that happens, you can switch your font size to 1em, or switch your font unit to px or pt, and then adjust to taste from there. You can also switch back to the old font size and units, as described below.

For reference, I'm noting all the font sizes that have changed below the cut. There are also instructions at the very bottom if you'd like to change back to the old (current) font size settings.

Bases

Setting	Old Size	New Size
Base font	12px	1em
Journal title	3em	2.25em
Journal subtitle	1.5em	1.125em
Entry titles	1.667em	1.25em

# original font size settings set font_base_size = "12"; set font_base_units = "px"; set font_journal_title_size = "3"; set font_journal_subtitle_size = "1.5"; set font_entry_title_size = "1.667";

Blanket

Setting	Old Size	New Size
Base font	0.625em	1em
Journal title	1.3em	1.25em
Entry titles	1.6em	1.5em

# original font size settings set font_base_size = "0.625"; set font_journal_title_size = "1.3"; set font_entry_title_size = "1.6";

Funky Circles

Setting	Old Size	New Size
Base font	15px	1em

# original font size settings set font_base_size = "15"; set font_base_units = "px";

Sunday Morning

Setting	Old Size	New Size
Base font	0.813em	1em
Module headings	1.1em	1.353em

# original font size settings set font_base_size = "0.813"; set font_module_heading_size = "1.1";

Transmogrified

Setting	Old Size	New Size
Base font	10pt	1em

# original font size settings set font_base_size = "10"; set font_base_units = "pt";

Going back to the old values

Easy way, through the wizard (will only work if you change them once the new settings have come into effect)

1. Go to Customize your Journal Style


2. Scroll down to the Fonts section


3. Click "expand all"


4. Use the tables above for your layout, to compare and replace the current settings. Save.

Slightly more complicated way (bulk update of settings, will work if you change them now)

1. Go to Customize your Journal Style


2. Don't make any changes; hit the save button. This makes sure that our next step will work


3. Go to your list of layers. Look for your layout name (it will be something like "Child of layer x: Layout Name"), then edit the layer of type "wizard" with the highest id.


4. Look for your layout section above, and copy-paste the contents of the textarea. Save.