(preamble: I just upgraded from C12 to C14, and I am honestly a bit baffled by some of the design decisions that makes things harder to read especially for people like me with bad eyesight and who already need special glasses for screen work . Maybe there is some setting that I haven’t found, but I searched the forum and found nothing, except people complaining about font sizes in C13 already…)
C14
I don’t know what led Steinberg to this decision, but in my book this is a massive decrease in legibility, I really have a hard time deciphering that… And I even increased the channel width and height.
(this is on a 27" Screen with 2560x1440)
After some further testing, I’ll actually think this is more of a bug.
If I increase the “Section height” to the max, the font size actually increases nearly back to C12 levels:
And if I enable the options “Show insert names as Plugin Names”, it is also a bigger font size, even with moderate “section height” settings:
If that is a bug though, I am puzzled how it wasn’t caught in QA. If it is on purpose, I fail to see the reasoning behind the inconsistent handling, and making text harder to read.
The problem with that for a developer is - what do you do if the user set font size doesn’t fit at all in the indented space? Shrink it again? Cut it off? That is not really feasible.
What I don’t really understand it why they reduced the font sizes everywhere from C13 onwards - C12 was mostly fine, no big problems there.
Actually, it’s quite simple. I work with developers over the years, and like everyone else, they will try to limit options to decrease work. Understandable.
Most users will be fine with the defaults, or never want to change it.
What you DO have is for advanced users (or users with accessibility challenges), you have an option (like an XML file) where people can tweak the interface to their needs.
If the font chosen is too big, then it gets cut off . So the people doing this will see that and go “oh, I guess it’s too big” and make it smaller.
These things are often far more simple than people make it.
Personally, I am abolutely fine with tweaking XML files (also for things like colors, e.g. more color choices to make a proper light mode), I’d also be fine with the way C12 was, which simply was better by default…
