Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.
Hello, I am 36 and I don't like reading stuff in small text because my eyes have deteriorated over many years of staring at screens.
With no obvious way to share AO3 work skins, I figured I'd share mine here.
The purpose is to make the text a good size, be more legible, and not go all the way across wide screens - it limits the width of the text area, and shouldn't break with the major site skins.
I do change the text to serif, which I find easier for long blocks of text, so if you don't want that you'll need to make your own adapted version that doesn't use the same font family.
I also added in a few extra pieces, so if you use the following:
<p class="divider">***</p>
It will put a nice division in to separate two scenes or a time/perspective shift.
And using:
<div class="title-image">IMAGE HERE</div>
Will make whatever image you put in have a width 95% of the text area, which is good for title images, and it will reduce if the screen shrinks.
I also included 5 different highlight classes, so using:
<span class="highlight-1">TEXT HERE</span>
will highlight that text in the colour scheme specified. Change the one to anything up to five for different colours. <Span> tags can be used at any point inside paragraphs or other blocks.
Ashe Easy Readin'
I have no idea if anyone but me can view the link, so I'll post the CSS below.
I also have a version up in the Stylish user styles gallery (Stylish is a browser plugin that lets you change website style sheets):
Easier Reading Ao3
Easier Reading Ao3 - Dyslexic Edition
These are useful if you want any unstyled works on the site to change to this style. I use it because it improves my Ao3 experience.
Some fans of certain media will comb thru all the canon material for their ship and be like "ohhh this is soooo much content we're being spoiled!!" and then you look over at them and *all* their content and its like