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How do I adjust the FONT SIZE on Safari 10?

I'm using OS X 10.11.6, and I just downloaded Safari 10.0. It seems to have replaced the "minimum font size" with a "zoom" function; but there's a big problem: If I make the font size as large as I prefer, the page runs off the screen; if I make the page zoom optimal, the font is too small! So I have to either squint at the text, or keep sliding back and forth to see the whole page. This is annoying and stupid. Isn't there a way to adjust the font size ALONE?

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 11:12 AM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2016 11:28 AM

Have same question. Safari 10.0 is USELESS to me if I can't change font size. Never imagined Apple would do such a Microsoft (see IE) thing.

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Sep 20, 2016 8:22 PM in response to Egtverchi

I have this problem, too.


I NEED to control the font size in Safari. Apple seems to have taken it away. Does anyone know where the font controls from the previous version of Safari went to?


Work arounds don't work. I end up with a page too large for my 13" Air's screen if the fonts are big enough. If the Safari page fits the screen, the fonts are too small.


(insert LOTS of cussing here).


(A **** of a lot more cussing here). Quit screwing around, Apple. I'm 65 and I don't have the time to waste trying to make software useable again after updates. And while I'm at it, your idiotic gray text in tiny size in the App store keeps me away from the App store until I desperately need something or other. The same goes for your website. And your "help" windows. Gray text *****! Tiny gray text is an abomination. Yeah, it's all artsy and clever, but I can't ******* read it without straining my eyes. Give us control of text size and color (black) everywhere. Let ME control what I see.


I remember the good old days when Apple was the make-everything-easier company. (More cussing).


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Sep 20, 2016 8:31 PM in response to Carmino

I tried that - thanks for the suggestion - but it seemed to me that it was doing basically the same thing as increasing the zoom: the text and the pages got bigger, the pages ended up larger than the screen, and I had to move back and forth to see the whole page. I ended up setting the resolution back to "Default for display" and using a 150% zoom.

Sep 20, 2016 10:29 PM in response to Egtverchi

I have this issue too. However, when going into the Advanced tab under Preferences, I change the Zoom setting higher and it enlarges everything without making the page shift horizontally. While I'm unsure if this is the new way Apple is dealing with font sizing, or sizing overall, it works for now. Give it a shot and see how it works for you.

Sep 21, 2016 5:35 AM in response to daniellefromtaylors

Having the same problem. My text is under 8 pt and -6pt in circumstances. Your experience is exactly the same as mine. IF I click command + (zoom) the photos and content are broader than the screen. I showed it to my husband who also updated but his is fine. Neither of us have figured out how to fix this issue and he's a professional computer man. At first I thought it was Safari. Tried Chrome, Then tried Firefox before realizing it not a browser issue, but a software issue. Hoping someone can fix this quickly. Maddening!

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Sep 21, 2016 6:19 AM in response to zerimar3

That was the first thing I tried. When I installed Safari 10 and restarted the computer, all the print was tiny, so I immediately went to the "Advanced" settings, where the minimum font size used to live - but now, instead of a font size control, there was a zoom control. If I leave it at 100%, all the pages fit - at least all the ones I've tried so far - but the print is uncomfortably small. If I increase it to 150%, the print is better (though still smaller than I prefer), but now several pages - including this one, by the way - expand beyond the screen, and while I'm typing this reply, I have to keep sliding back and forth to see all my text.


But there's another problem: when you zoom, various things besides the text expand in random and unpredictable ways. Fields (for text or images) become much larger than they need to be, crowding out information I need to see - but the text inside those fields stays relatively small, so I have a big empty space with small print. This was easily solved in Safari 9 by expanding the font size, but I can't do that in Safari 10. Furthermore, in order to accommodate these expanded fields, Safari breaks the format of the page, moving everything around; so (for instance) instead of two things being visible side by side, they are now displayed above each other, and I now have to scroll vertically as well as horizontally, to see the content of that page.

How do I adjust the FONT SIZE on Safari 10?

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