# Why did my Wikipedia font display get small?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954 "2022-03-30T03:39:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954/1 "2022-03-30T03:39:08Z")

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I have no idea what I did, but the font size on my Wikipedia pages jsut got small. I’d like to make it bigger again - I find the small font hard to read.

Any suggestions what I did? I’m using Chromebook.

(It’s not affected SDMB or Google)

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954/2 "2022-03-30T03:43:53Z")

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Is it a zoom in thing? Different tabs can have different zoom levels.

Try:

1. Make the page bigger: Press Ctrl and +.
2. Make the page smaller: Press Ctrl and -.
3. Reset zoom: Press Ctrl + 0.

At the least it should be able to make the page readable even if the problem is something else.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954/3 "2022-03-30T03:46:47Z")

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That did it ! Yay! Thanks. My eyes thank you!

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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:** [March 30, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954/4 "2022-03-30T05:15:08Z")

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It’s also easy to do by accident. Spinning the scroll wheel on your mouse while holding Control (I think, could be shift). Plus, it remembers that setting the next time you go back to that page. But, as mentioned Ctrl-0 will bring it back to 100%. I believe (at least on a Win 10 with Firefox) it’ll show the zoom percentage at the very right of the URL bar.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-wikipedia-font-display-get-small/961954/5 "2022-03-30T10:39:18Z")

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In Firefox (and I expect others), it’s possible to change the default font size. Currently I have mine at 110% due to a vision problem that was mostly fixed by my new glasses. But I left the default there because it’s still easier to read on many sites.