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Date/Time: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:58:11 +0000
Post From: Font Sizes / Faces
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| User719512 - Posts: 458 |
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See Important: Understanding Fonts and Text when using Open GL and also search the forum for OpenGL or font, etc. In short, Sierra will work best with fewer fonts/faces/sizes and assuming you are using OpenGL, and this can be a major contributor to optimization. I have found that setting all of Sierra to use a single font like Segoe UI is best. Arial or Tahoma are fine, and sticking to one is my own personal best practice. For sizes, I use 7, 8, 9 globally and Normal/Regular for all. My custom studies are set to use Segoe UI as well. If you dig into how/why Sierra has to do its own work for every-single-font-size-and-face, you will realize the extra work involved to render any given screen with OpenGL. Sierra is very fast, but the graphics load is also not for free. You could at least baseline with streamlined settings, then add complexity, fonts, faces till you see a difference. Without knowing your CPU/GPU and more...no one answer is going fit and will vary among different users. |