Custom font size is limited between 13 and 20

[Mikaela]

Steps to reproduce

1. Settings, UI/Appearance, Font size
2. The slider can go between 13 and 18
3. I want a smaller font so I click custom font size
4. I cannot go below 12 as it says that it must be between 12 and 18.

Outcome

What did you expect?

I expected to be able to specify as custom font size instead of being restricted to the slider above (which I thought allowed the same numbers, but apparently caps to 18 instead of 20).

What happened instead?

I am forced to stay between 13 and 20.

Operating system

"Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)"

Browser information

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0 ID:20220812093714

URL for webapp

develop.element.io

Application version

Element-versio: 39eee10-react-8db7766a4012-js-3f6f5b69c7a1 Olm-versio: 3.2.12

Homeserver

pikaviestin.fi is on Synapse 1.64.0

Will you send logs?

No

[Mikaela]

My real problem is that left sidebar is using too big font for me to be able to utilise it.

The workaround to this is setting font size to 15 and set page zoom level to 80 % in the browser.

[andybalaam]

A possible workaround is to use my (unsupported, experimental) tampermonkey script here: https://gitlab.com/andybalaam/element-web-tweaks/

[Diablo-D3]

Any update on this? Seems like a simple fix to remove the check entirely.

[andybalaam]

@vector-im/product can someone comment on this? We currently prevent the user from choosing the font size they want, with a message "Custom font size can only be between 13 pt and 20 pt".

I think a warning might be more appropriate - this is actively preventing some people making the app more accessible for their needs.

[Diablo-D3]

This bug intersects also with how Element considers text size; this sets the base value, everything else seems to be relative offsets of this.

#23913 basically illustrates the problem where font size in the prefs does not directly set the message body text size. So, a lot of stuff is kinda wrong here, and limiting the user from fixing it is kinda pear-shaped.

[daniellekirkwood]

I believe this has been fixed...

These are the available font sizes today in Nightly

[t3chguy]

Fixed by matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#12246