How do I adjust the FONT SIZE on Safari 10?

Safari 10 Minimum Font Size

Egtverchi wrote:

Terminal doesn't appear in the Applications per se; it's in Utilities, which is one of the Applications. People who have used Terminal will already know this; I didn't.

But you don't have to memorize the locations of apps or files - I know where Terminal is, because I've been using macOS for 16 years. But all you need to do to launch Terminal is to

1. hit command-spacebar or click the magnifying glass in the extreme upper outer corner of the screen. This will bring up Spotlight.
2. Start typing "Terminal" into the Spotlight bar. The "Top Hit" should be "Terminal" and on the right it will say "kind: App".

3. Double-click the line under Top Hit that says Terminal. Terminal will open.

4. You can do this to find ANY file, app or Word or PDF or image or movie.

"Terminal" is just the name of the macOS app that allows the entry of Unix commands.

macOS is Unix at its heart, and Terminal lets you control macOS using the classic Unix command line.

Command-line interfaces require typing as input and give text as output. They were mostly replaced by Graphical User Interfaces (GUI, pronounced Gooey) in the Xerox systems and by the original Apple Macintosh in 1984, which was immediately copied by Microsoft as usual. But macOS still can have many if not most of its basic file functions controlled by the command-line interface if desired.

I had this problem using Safari 10 and macOS Sierra. Was only happening on some websites. The terminal command above has fixed it now.

Minimum font size is no solution to random web pages and crappy font sizes. Every page needs its own solution, and if your preferred minimum is too big, the sites become unusable. Text overlaps, goes off screen, etc. Being able to change the size on the fly to read small text is indispensable.

Why would you take away this feature?

I was able to go to Preferences, Advanced, and Zoom down or up. Mine had gotten smaller, not bigger, when I restarted my computer yesterday, so I zoomed up. If the page gets too BIG, then you can go to the light grey area at the top of the page, move it to the right, then grab the left side and shrink it a bit.

This frustrating.. changing the font size was a breeze before. Why get rid of it??

I'll be telling my parents who have vision issues not to bother with the update at all.

Argh.

Thank you, Kaeve. This works well.

Agreed, but the best solution would be for web designers not to let text overlap anything to begin with. After all, that's what layout is supposed to be about. If you have a string of text that the user has said should be 16-point, then the other elements around and below it should be adjusted not to lie under or over the text. This is called auto layout and word processors and publishing programs have done it for decades. It's lazy web programmers who can't do it.

They took away Larger system fonts and haven;t put them back. If the option existed, it would be in Accessibility under System Preferences.

I coudn't stand the new Safari 10 so I restored from backup, nuking my drive. Drastic, but I could't handle the auto-playing ads any longer. Put the font-size idiocy atop it and it was just a pain.

We don't get to read perfect web pages where the designer has thought of everything - we have to read messy pages designed to be viewed with perfect sight on some other computer with a different dot pitch and windows just the right size for the design.

Being able to change the font size on the fly is indispensable.