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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by djmips on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:46PM (#29356808)
I agree with this 100%. And there needs to be something in the design to allow you to zoom the text size. It's comical to witness myself trying to read too small text and reflexively zooming only to have the same sized font.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by johnwalkr on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:26AM (#29358562)
Even worse, it seems almost random which zoom levels have text. Often, especially for train line and station names, zooming in makes the text disappear!
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by sam_lowry_ on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:44AM (#29358668)
Use OsmAnd~ for lots of options and Guru maps for easy handling.

Both based on OSM, of course.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by wanderingstan on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:59PM (#29356906)
Agreed. As my eyesight has gotten worse, I rely more and more on being able to do a quick pinch-to-zoom to read small type. Ironically, this pushes me away from native apps and onto the mobile browser!
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by clusterfish on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:48AM (#29358388)
Honorary mention to altitude level labels in terrain mode. They're like one millimeter tall on mobile, and not much better on desktop.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by systemvoltage on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:50PM (#29356828)
I didn’t know how badly I would like to see this until now. I love static-ness in UIs.
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