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Homepage - Change font size and bolding

The fonts for the balances are too thin, i feel like they need to be a bit smaller and at least a little bold, this is a very thin line and hard to read.

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Fred Esrafili shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
Completed  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi everyone, we thank you for your feedback around font sizing and the points you've shared around your experience with the new homepage here.

Recently we made an update to improve the readability and and help when quickly scanning key balances on the homepage - We've released changes to increase the weight and stat colour of font, to help key numbers stand out on the page, so you can quickly spot important balances at a glance.

Thanks again for feedback here and helping us continue to make changes to improve your use of Xero.

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  • Ken Leanfore commented  ·   ·  Report

    Make the typeface for the numbers heavier. It get's a little lost in the clutter.

  • Liam Ooi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agreed — the font weight is far too skinny for a 24px font size. This greatly affects accessibility for users with poor vision. The font-size and colour contrast may technically pass WCAG standards, but in real usage the legibility is very poor.

  • Scott Hirst commented  ·   ·  Report

    since the update the font is tiny, i cant increase the size on my pc as it makes everything else out off sync, before the update it was fine

  • Ewan Gibson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I noticed that the font throughout the entire system changed when the new homepage was introduced. The new font is smaller and far harder to read, the lines are thinner.

  • Gabriel Brady commented  ·   ·  Report

    **Key Numbers in Bold**

    All I care about is the numbers.... that's the point of an accounting program. Why they are in a fancy new ultra thin and very unclear variant on gotham or helvetica neue light I have no idea... clearly form over function from the designers.

    An accounting system is a cockpit for piloting your business, you don't make a cockpit pretty, you make it functional first, pretty second or you put lives and in Xero's case people's jobs at risk. Designers need to take their jobs more seriously.

    Senior user experience designers would have understood this... this looks like design work from junior graduates, not a Honeywell, SpaceX or Airbus space flight systems human machine interface engineer...

    Get some people who've actual run a business on your team...

  • Christine Koerner commented  ·   ·  Report

    New Homepage Fonts too big and too much space between lines. Needs to be condensed so less scrolling is necessary.

  • Laura Davey commented  ·   ·  Report

    Typography - The font weight for the numbers is very fine and doesn't draw the eye so it's harder to take in the important information at a glance. Under the 'Invoices Owed to You' and 'Bills to pay' sections it would be great to have a clearer marker (perhaps a red border, underline or background) on the overdue numbers to make the significance of that figure stand out more