izzyizumi reblogged
two ways to change AO3's font size
if you want to change the whole site
- Log into your account
- Tap on Hi, username! at the top of the page
- choose Dashboard from the dropdown menu
- Find and tap on the word Skins (just below the search bar on mobile, or in the left-hand sidebar on a computer)
- Tap on the Create Site Skin button at the top of the page
- Tap on the Use Wizard button at the top of the page
- Enter a unique title for your site skin (if you don't do this, it won't save)
- Scroll down to the box that says Percent of browser font size and enter a number that's bigger than 100.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the Submit button (this only saves your skin, it doesn't apply it)
- On the next page, hit the Use button (this applies the skin to your account)
if you just want to change the text inside the fics
Follow steps 1-5 above, but do not hit the Use Wizard button. Instead:
- Enter a unique title for your skin
- Scroll down to the large box with CSS at the top
- Paste this CSS code into the window
#workskin p { font-size: 110%; }
and then follow steps 9 and 10 above. If the font still isn't large enough, make the number bigger. For example 100% is whatever size the font usually is in your browser, so 200% would be double that size.
#informative#fandom informative#ao3 informative#ao3#archive of our own#accessibility#ao3 accessibility#ao3 skins#coding#font sizes#references#(because I see people here with concerns about accessibility when reading fics and such)#(its also perfectly fine to use these when reading my own stuff)#useful#(I dont do things like changing font sizes within the text *myself* for the sake of accessibility)#(and everyones accessibility needs are different *including my own*)#({i.e. larger bolded font sizes all throughout a work hurts my eyes a lot for example})#(so I usually stick with default font sizes)#(but changing the font size in such ways is meant to help you!)#(Feel free to try this if it helps)#the more you know