Increase kanjis size? I can barely distinguish them in the browser

[Edge]

I can barely read kanjis I already know in Youtube, for example, and I can’t distinguish ブ from プ already, is there a way to increase the size of kanjis, hiragana and katakana in Google Chrome?

I don’t want the restrain the amount of text I can read at the same time, however, japanese writing systems are something else and I can’t read them as it stands now

This may be occurring due to a 1920x1080 resolution (I don’t want to imagine in 4K)

Any ideas?

[seanblue]

@Edge

This may be occurring due to a 1920x1080 resolution (I don’t want to imagine in 4K)

In Windows you can set your computer to zoom everything. (I assume other operating systems can do this to, but I don’t know for sure.) When I moved up from a 720p to 1080p laptop, I set the zoom to 125%. On my 4k work laptop, the zoom is set to 200%.

Windows zoom screenshot

You can also set the default page zoom in Chrome if you prefer a solution that just impacts Chrome.

Chrome zoom screenshot

I have no idea how to just change the size of Japanese text if that’s all you truly want.

[Omun]

Not on desktop right now, but in the YT app I can go to settings → captions → adjust size

[Edge]

Yeah, I’d rather end up increasing the overall font size than zooming in, tbh I feel claustrophobic at 125%.

But yeah, my idea is to only increase the size of japanese text

[Edge]

I don’t have issues in the phone, they are easy to read

[Mrs_Diss]

dunno about Chrome, but on Firefox you can zoom into any page with a keyboard shortcut or a touchpad gesture. i imagine that ought to work on Chrome too

early on when i’d just started learning japanese i had several pages/sites which i just kept permanently zoomed in.

it’s got the advantage that you don’t have to modify anything else

[omk3]

I can read almost everything clearly on wanikani although my eyesight is not as sharp as it used to be. I do sometimes have trouble distinguishing ぶ from ぷ as you say. In those cases a quick ctrl + will zoom in so I can make sure what I’m looking at, then I return to normal view with ctrl 0. Fast and easy.

[sergiop]

All solutions I see are for ZOOMing everything. In theory, I think one could CSS styling with the Stylus addon to change the size of only the Japanese characters but I’m horrible with CSS and HTML so I cannot provide an actual implemention.

UPDATE: I look at my unused Tampermonkey userscripts and found one that works (Firefox, I have not tried with Chrome). I could not see the developer info or find in it in Tampermonkey but I’m sure is identical to the one in this repository, userscripts/enlargeJapanese.user.js at master · IllDepence/userscripts · GitHub
For me, it worked but it really messed the furigana since the script does not change the size proportionally. Here is the code sorry I cannot find who was the author. To test it, click Tampermonkey icon > Dashboard > + (plus sign to add an script) > copy and paste the code below.

// ==UserScript==
// @name enlargeJapanese
// @namespace enlargeJapanese
// @description enlarge Japanese text
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==

var minFontSize = 32;
var jPatt = /[\u3000-\u303f\u3040-\u309f\u30a0-\u30ff\uff00-\uffef\u4e00-\u9faf\u3400-\u4dbf]+/g;

/*

• http://salaciak.blogspot.de/2011/02/javascript-dom-how-to-get-elements.html
  */
  function elementCurrentStyle(element, styleName){
  if (element.currentStyle){
  var i = 0, temp = “”, changeCase = false;
  for (i = 0; i < styleName.length; i++)
  if (styleName[i] != ‘-’){
  temp += (changeCase ? styleName[i].toUpperCase() : styleName[i]);
  changeCase = false;
  } else {
  changeCase = true;
  }
  styleName = temp;
  return element.currentStyle[styleName];
  } else {
  return getComputedStyle(element, null).getPropertyValue(styleName);
  }
  }

/*

• sirtetris
  */

function getEnlarged(text) {
return text.replace(jPatt, ‘$&’);
}

function enlargeOnlyInnerMost(elem) {
if(elem.nodeName == “TEXTAREA”) return;
if(elem.hasChildNodes()) {
var cn = elem.childNodes;
for(var i=0; i<cn.length; i++) {
enlargeOnlyInnerMost(cn[i]);
}
}
else {
// at this point elem is a text node or an empty element
if(elem.textContent.length <= 1 && elem.nodeType == 1) {
// an empty element
if(elem.hasAttribute(‘value’)) {
if(elem.value.search(jPatt) > -1) {
elem.style.fontSize = minFontSize+‘px’;
}
}
return;
}
if(elem.nodeType == 3) {
// a text node
var paret = elem.parentNode;
if(elementCurrentStyle(paret, “font-size”).replace(“px”,“”) >= minFontSize) {
return;
}
if(paret.childNodes.length == 1) {
// a node with only text in it. it’s save to just insert < and >
paret.innerHTML = getEnlarged(paret.innerHTML);
}
else {
// node with tags in it. be sure to not insert < and > inside of them
var toDo = (elem.nodeValue.match(jPatt) || Array());
for(var i=0; i<toDo.length; i++) {
paret.innerHTML = paret.innerHTML.replace(toDo[i], ‘’+toDo[i]+‘’);
}
}
}
}
}

enlargeOnlyInnerMost(document.body);

[Tenugui]

I browse WK and WK Community at 120% page zoom to more easily catch the nuances in Japanese characters.