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Starred by 6 users
Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 260766
Owner: ----
Closed: Jan 2017
Cc:
█ hdodda@chromium.org
bsep@chromium.org
pkasting@chromium.org
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature
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omnibar font size too small and doesn't utilize system font size

Reported by spanktha...@gmail.com, Oct 17 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. set font to liberation sans 14 
2. dpi to 96 (default for most distros)
3. open chromium

What is the expected behavior?
Omnibar font size should be equal to system font size

What went wrong?
Omnibar font size much smaller

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit)  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 4.7.7
Flash Version: 

Changing DPI had no affect until 125. Then, Chromium's UI was much too large and the font size was still not equal to the system's font size

Solution: use the system font-size for the omnibar
chromium linux liberation sans 14 dpi 96.png
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Comment 1 by redst...@gmail.com, Oct 23 2016 

I see this issue on Chrome 54.0.2840.71 on Ubuntu 16.10 on high DPI display:

$ xrdb -q | grep Xft.dpi
Xft.dpi:	120

$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name
'Ubuntu 13'
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Comment 2 by redst...@gmail.com, Oct 23 2016 

The icons to either side of the address bar are tiny as well, which makes me think it's not so much a font size issue as using the wrong DPI info when sizing the omnibar.

Comment 3 by redst...@gmail.com, Oct 23 2016 

One other thought:  Chromium has a command-line flag,
--force-device-scale-factor=1.3
that is somewhat helpful - it makes the omnibar bigger, but then makes the tab titles a bit too big, and the font-size between the ominbar, tab titles and e.g., bookmarks bar do not match.

Comment 4 by hdodda@chromium.org, Oct 24 2016

Cc: hdodda@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug M-56 OS-Mac OS-Windows Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Considering this as feature request , adding related labels.

Thanks !

Comment 5 by woxxom@gmail.com, Oct 24 2016 

I think it was broken by Material Design guys, see https://medium.com/google-design/redesigning-chrome-desktop-769aeb5ab987#.50f6hci09 - they've calculated all pixels and paddings based on their idealized vision, not even trying to retain the previously used font size which was bigger.

Comment 6 by bsep@chromium.org, Jan 28 2017

Cc: bsep@chromium.org pkasting@chromium.org
Components: -UI UI>Browser>Omnibox UI>Accessibility
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
It seems worth increasing the omnibox font size if the UI font size is larger than normal.

Comment 7 by pkasting@chromium.org, Jan 28 2017

Mergedinto: 260766
Status: Duplicate (was: Available)
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