Mobile font sizes bump

SamMarrocco

As I use the mobile versions of Legend daily, I’m going to ‘bump’ this suggestions again as I feel it’s pretty important to usability….

FEATURE/IMPROVEMENT: The Legend needs a was to control it’s font/text size locally, i.e. independent of iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac. Currently the font size for items is ‘slaved’ together and all apps, regardless of resolution or device screen share the same font size. Therefore, a font that is a usable size on Windows/Desktop Legend is far from usable on a smaller screen device such as the iPhone or an iPad. Even an iPad can use a smaller font than an iPhone and should not be locked together. Each Legend device instance should have it’s own font size adjustment and be independent of other devices. Another reason would be that it can be very difficult to select an item’s bullet on the iPhone or collapse a document hierarchy if the font was left smaller from being changed on the Desktop version, leaving you unable to work if you aren’t near a desktop and able to change it back. Every time I go to my phone I find myself muttering under my breath that I have to change the font size, then repeat that process when I go to a Windows or Mac native Legend app.

FEATURE/IMPROVEMENT: It would be nice to be able to set the font size of the “Document viewer” pane on iOS independently of the main UI font size. It can take a bit of maneuvering to open/close/select documents currently as these slide in to cover the screen, they don’t need to share real estate….they could be adjustable size as well (and independent of the app platform.

Jorge

Yes I agree That controlling a single
font size for all screen formats is not the way to go.
Because of the lack of functionality in the native mobile app, sometimes I need to recuse to the web app in the phone.
In the mobile mode when writing I still get the duplicate lines garbling up the screen. So I switch to desktop mode in order to be able to edit text (because the duplicate lines don’t show up in that mode). But in desktop mode the font size that is OK in the laptop is way too small so i need to go to settings and change the font size. Having different font sizes for each screen format works be useful.

An alternative would be to be able to zoom in and out by pinching the screen when in desktop mode. For some reason the browser doesn’t respond to pinches when in the legend app. It does work in any other sites though.

SamMarrocco

Jorge

While I think being able to ‘pinch-zoom’ is a handy feature, the adjustable font size combined with the option to text wrap and Legend’s natural “Zoom into an item” lets you see what you want/need, without having to pinch-zoom-pan-pan-zoom-pan etc…. Navigation with two fingers seems great at first until you try to read lots of text using it, but is fine as an option.

Jorge

SamMarrocco I agree the different font sizes for different screen formats should be the solution but I was just suggesting the pinch because it might be just a quick configuration fix on electron rather than a coding job, which might help in the meantime Jay is able to dedicate time for the font size.

andrew

I agree, it would be great to have mobile-specific styles to modify with the Layout tab of the Display Settings page.

One possible workaround for font size is that you could set a larger overall font size on desktop, then zoom out on the desktop app or browser (Ctrl - or Cmd -). So it ends up relatively unchanged on desktop and larger on mobile. Other elements end up smaller so not a perfect solution.

Jerud

+1 for a dedicated “mobile” theme/style set.