Rant/Question: Clients wanting everything in large print.
Of all the annoying client "notes", this one has to be my least favourite.
We get a revision request for something like "Can you make the font bigger, I can barely read it."
This is despite the fact that it's using the same font-size as 95% of the web, the font size is responsive to the user's OS-level settings and it looks perfect.
If we're using a UI framework, of course this breaks everything since components are usually designed around a specific font size for input labels etc.
Even worse is when we're doing mobile apps and the text ends up using 2 words per line of something ridiculous.
Again, you can change font size system-wide if you are partially-sighted, you don't need to ruin it for everyone else!
Rant over... anyone else get this, or just our clients?
Posted Aug 3, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC