# What's wrong with my font?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 2, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622 "2011-11-02T14:13:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622/1 "2011-11-02T14:13:07Z")

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Yesterday, I left my computer and everything was fine, when I got back to it, the font was all screwed up. Specifically, it seems to be bigger and/or bolder. It’s only on the Dope (hence posting here), only on my work computer and only on Firefox(3.6).

I’ll get some screenshots in a second.

ETA: Shut up, I figured it out. Yes, I tried Control-Scroll, but since it wasn’t a browser wide thing, I didn’t think that was it, besides that didn’t make it right. Tried it again and it turns out, Control-Scroll only adjusted the font on this page and I must have never hit the right size for it to click with my brain as being ‘right’.  
Seems all is well again.

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**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622/2 "2011-11-02T14:15:26Z")

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Did someone zoom in? Try holding CTRL and scrolling the scroll wheel.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622/3 "2011-11-02T14:16:29Z")

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Simul-post/edit. The ‘shut up’ wasn’t aimed at you Trepa, it was meant as a joke!  
I have to assume it was me that did it without paying attention. I doubt anyone else used my computer. I wonder why only this site was effected?

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**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622/4 "2011-11-02T14:19:46Z")

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I wasn’t aware of this feature! Thanks! And, armed with the knowledge, I went out and found that you can return to the normal size for the page by doing ctrl+0 (zero).

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**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-font/601622/5 "2011-11-02T15:44:24Z")

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If that happens again (and you’re using Firefox) you can go to View – Zoom – Reset. Unlike IE, Firefox doesn’t change font-sizes globally; if you zoom in (or out) on one site, it’ll remember that next time so you don’t have to keep adjusting things on a site-by-site basis, and it won’t render other sites differently unless you request it.

Choosing “reset” will bring things back to their original state.