# Different font? What the devil...?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 21, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112 "2000-08-21T02:02:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112/1 "2000-08-21T02:02:19Z")
As quite a few of you knew, my computer was down for two weeks. Now that I’m back, the first thing I did was go to the board to see what was going on. Much to my surprise, the format seems to have changed! Well, not the format, but the font seems to be much bigger and bolder. Is it just my computer or everyone else’s? I don’t have this problem on any other websites. What I’m writing now looks just fine, but when I submit it and send it onto the board, the letters will be huge and make me go blind. I wish I knew how to fix it.
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### Author:  [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112/2 "2000-08-21T02:13:22Z")
Is it possible that you just have a different setting? If you’re using Internet Explorer, there is a “text size” option in the “view” menu.
If not, I don’t know.
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### Author:  [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112/3 "2000-08-21T02:46:46Z")
Its just you welfy. Try your settings.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112/4 "2000-08-21T02:49:05Z")
Nope. See my thread. Gone all (well, muchly) Times New Roman and I did NOTHING to my settings.
Sorry I didn’t notice this thread first.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112/5 "2000-08-21T05:42:28Z")
Sheesh, no wonder ATMB is always so slow! You MPSIMSers are stealing the threads!
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### Author:  [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-font-what-the-devil/30112/6 "2000-08-26T03:30:25Z")
Hmmm…it’s my settings on my desktop, because when I was signed on my brother’s desktop this morning, it was fine. How do I change this if I’m using AOL 5.0? Anyone?