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blueskip:
Does anyone know of any Themes that are suitable for this font that really look nice.  I think this is the perfect size font.  It's a shame it's not used more.  

There must be some drawback to using a larger font since so few use them.  But for a older guy like myself that small stuff just ain't cuttin these days.   ;D

Is there a reason why the larger fonts aren't more prevalent?

melancholydm:
well if you want to use a font size that big... best way really is to make your own theme or modify a existing one. Unless of course theres a theme already that uses big fonts. For example I wanted to use unifont to see the kanji in my jmusic amongst many other tweaks, so I modified dockpod aqua to fit my taste.

Yotto:
Most people don't use bigger fonts because you can't fit as much on the screen.

I personally want my screen FULL of info, so I use a 12 font. Don't remember which one off hand, but it's roughly the same as nimbus 12.

I'll second the "Do it yourself" thing.  Nothing beats making your own WPS. Everything's exactly where you want it.

blueskip:
Yotto,

You are the same person that replied to me on another thread when I was asking about backgrounds, so you should already know that's what I'm attempting to do.    

I personally only want basic normal info onscreen although the time is nice to have on screen.  I don't sit there and read the thing while i'm listening to it.  So in answer to your question, yes I'm already attempting to make my own theme.  Nimbus 19 is about the same size on the ipod video as the apple fonts.  I'm sure apple chose this size because it's easy to read and works pretty good.  

I only wanted to know if there was a technical reason people were steering away from normal size fonts other than to fit more onscreen.  What I mean by that is it maybe it might not be possible to read something in a game, or the font would be to large for use of (fill in the blank).  The only thing I can think of is maybe reading text may be annoying.  

I'm having a slow time learning how to place stuff using the tags but I'm sure I'll eventually get it.  

melancholydm:
well thats the beautiful thing about rockbox. you can tweak it anyway you want so that it fits YOUR needs.

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