🔍Suggestion:Text style toggle (590+ votes)

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TLDR:
I am suggesting a setting you can switch on or off client side to remove text formatting such as text color, bold/italics and size.

Summary:
My suggestion is to add a toggle that would allow players to view trade rules and forum posts in plain text (normal size, default font color for whichever theme is being used, without bold/italics/etc).

Adding this feature would ensure those who struggle with small text sizing and cetain colors can read trade rules and forum replies in plain text.

This change would be client side, and wouldn't actually change anyone elses posts/rules from anyone elses perspective.
It could be a toggle per post, or an option in settings that can be switched on or off.


Why:
I'm suggesting this as due to migraines, my vision is sometimes pretty terrible!
If someone's trade rules or forum post uses small text or pastel colors, their message becomes near impossible for me to see- meaning I either don't trade, or I ignore someones trade rules- which I wouldn't want to do.
(As a small note, obviously the best thing to do with a migraine is rest- but I get so many that if I did that, I'd never do anything else!)

This feature would also be extremely useful for colorblind and dyslexic users- and anyone else who just don't like having to zoom in to read trade rules!


Explanation and examples:
I'm sure a lot of us have encountered trade rules written in very small text sizes, or using text colors that are strenious to read- and it's frustrating! When trading, I want to read a users rules quickly and easily to make them an offer they'll appreciate.
This is a small but potentially extremely beneficial feature for many CS players, not just those who get migraines!

For example, here's a set of rules I made based on a range of rules I've seen:

mockcsrules.png

And here's the same set of rules with the option to put them into plain text toggled:

mockcsrulesplain.png

I hope I've explained clearly what I'd like to see here- other peoples forum posts and trade rules! (Sorry :3c)

But really, please reply if you've also struggled with this before- sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one?! Please refrain from screenshotting anyone else's posts as an example, though- singling out other people isn't constructive to the suggestion ^^

Thank you for checking out this post :3



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[Felicity<3]

While i personally don't find any issue with reading even low contrast/small text when its reasonable, I completely support this idea! There are already inbuilt functions with most devices to increase contrast, and for my device something called reading mode (turns every text white and all background black). Built in site would be significantly easier for many users however, as I'm sure most without knowledge of this functions wouldn't know how to enable them. Being able to have modes in settings such as high contrast or straight up black and white is completely doable, such as ignoring colour tags in BBC, keeping reasonable text size limits (e.g. make small text become bigger when hovered over) would significantly help the many people who struggle reading such text, as seen in the poll. And sure, for some it may ruin your post, or signature, but hey, its just a little sacrifice for someone who cannot see as well as you do!

[Felicity<3]

bump

[minecraft]

TLDR:
I am suggesting a setting you can switch on or off client side to remove text formatting such as text color, bold/italics and size.

Summary:
My suggestion is to add a toggle that would allow players to view trade rules and forum posts in plain text (normal size, default font color for whichever theme is being used, without bold/italics/etc).

Adding this feature would ensure those who struggle with small text sizing and cetain colors can read trade rules and forum replies in plain text.

This change would be client side, and wouldn't actually change anyone elses posts/rules from anyone elses perspective.
It could be a toggle per post, or an option in settings that can be switched on or off.


Why:
I'm suggesting this as due to migraines, my vision is sometimes pretty terrible!
If someone's trade rules or forum post uses small text or pastel colors, their message becomes near impossible for me to see- meaning I either don't trade, or I ignore someones trade rules- which I wouldn't want to do.
(As a small note, obviously the best thing to do with a migraine is rest- but I get so many that if I did that, I'd never do anything else!)

This feature would also be extremely useful for colorblind and dyslexic users- and anyone else who just don't like having to zoom in to read trade rules!


Explanation and examples:
I'm sure a lot of us have encountered trade rules written in very small text sizes, or using text colors that are strenious to read- and it's frustrating! When trading, I want to read a users rules quickly and easily to make them an offer they'll appreciate.
This is a small but potentially extremely beneficial feature for many CS players, not just those who get migraines!

For example, here's a set of rules I made based on a range of rules I've seen:

mockcsrules.png

And here's the same set of rules with the option to put them into plain text toggled:

mockcsrulesplain.png

I hope I've explained clearly what I'd like to see here- other peoples forum posts and trade rules! (Sorry :3c)

But really, please reply if you've also struggled with this before- sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one?! Please refrain from screenshotting anyone else's posts as an example, though- singling out other people isn't constructive to the suggestion ^^

Thank you for checking out this post :3



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[minecraft]

bumping this as we're getting closer to 600 votes!

[minecraft]

bump... almost into year 2 of suggesting this

[sunlithollow]

support!

[wwwhales]

support!!!!

[campcritters]

+1

I actually came across an art shop that had text that was so hard to read that I immediately closed the tab. I suffer from migraines too! Trying to read text that is too small or too large could cause one within seconds.