Google Tests Bigger Search Results Fonts

Over the past week or so, I’ve received numerous tweets and notifications from the community that Google is testing much larger fonts in the search results page. Well, now I am seeing it myself in some browsers and yes, it feels much bigger.

Here is the normal size font (click to enlarge):

Here is the larger font (click to enlarge):

Personally, I prefer smaller fonts – I am not of the age where I need glasses to see smaller fonts on my screens. But yea, this feels big.

I tried to find all the people who tweeted at me about the larger fonts and I know I missed most of you, but here are some. I am sorry for leaving some of you out:

https://t.co/hcBwe8L2hp pic.twitter.com/BpZILj0xOW

— ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) August 13, 2019

@rustybrick Looks like Google is testing out larger fonts again. pic.twitter.com/l0DPRBwfqs

— Matt (@jackalswitch79) August 7, 2019

Do I really need an increased font, Google? This is 24″ screen without any zoom @googlewmc @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/DNWGMqUm9y

— Sergei Ivanov (@sezhers) August 7, 2019

Forum discussion at Twitter.