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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #310353
  2. Comment #59

Comment 59 for bug 310353

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

To make the above point completely clear.

If you consider 8 pixels to be smallest displayable font size, it is probably something close to this anyway.

Then you end up with the smallest displayable pt size fonts as:

laptop 150 dpi - 4 pt
desktop 100 dpi - 6 pt
hdtv 30 dpi - 20 pt

This does not even take into account the factor of is it readable by the majority of users, but just plain being able to render the font properly at all.

However, as you can see there is clearly no universal correct font size for all use cases...