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I dunno how I ended up there, but I found myself on the wikipedia entry for the name of Japan (Nihon?) which has a lot of Chinese and Japanese script.

It looks very cramped in whatever my default font size is, and a lot of the detail seems difficult to pick out. Particularly in the (I assume) traditional Chinese. Example: 大清帝國

Which got me wondering about font size. Do users of these scripts have different defaults? Or is it just because I'm not used to reading it?

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me, as someone who has at least learned a little bit of Japanese, the more complex a character is, the more likely it is I would personally love a slightly bigger font to make sure I am correct on what the character is if it's kanji. Same thing applies for me to Chinese Hanzin (regardless of whether it's simplified or traditional). That, and for ツ (tsu) and シ (shi) in katakana because my brain has difficulty telling the difference if the font is small enough.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 2 days ago

Same here, I know most hiragana and katakana but the kanji printed in some of the text books and manga destroyed me, so hard to read and differentiate.

tsu and shi are also a pain, especially since handwritten Japanese has so many variations of them. Almost impossible to differentiate if you don't know the word.