<p>I often need to use Mapquest or Google Maps on my computer. For quite a while now I’ve only used Mapquest because the Google Maps street names and even the control bars and functions or so very tiny they are unreadable.</p>
<p>Now the same thing is happening in Mapquest. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? I thought maybe it was my browser but I just loaded the most up-to-date version of Firefox and the same thing is happening.</p>
<p>I use safari generally, but I assume you have checked your font settings in your browser &/or your system folder?
Perhaps the map applications are defaulting to a font you don’t have/became corrupted.</p>
<p>I would say it is either your eyes or your computer and not the map sites themselves. You can zoom in to see street names on Google maps. I gave up on Mapquest a long time ago as they give the worst directions in our area.</p>
<p>Here’s how someone fixed a similar problem in google chrome.
[How</a> to Fix Google Chrome Font Rendering Issues - The Lone Sysadmin](<a href=“http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/09/12/how-to-fix-google-chrome-font-rendering-issues/]How”>How to Fix Google Chrome Font Rendering Issues - The Lone Sysadmin)</p>
<p>I’ve had that problem. Have you tried hitting the control key and the + key at the same time?</p>
<p>If you’re on Windows 7, you could try the magnifier. Mac OS X has a zoom feature too if you have a trackpad. I’m not sure how you do it without a trackpad. I think that Windows XP had third-party tools for doing screen zoom.</p>
<p>This may not be what chug is experiencing, but when I zoom in on a map in either progrem, the fonts increase in size a bit but then jump down to a much smaller size , so I zoom a bit more, and sure enough, they jump back into “too tiny to read” mode. I find it very frustrating, but I’m sure it’s something built into the program to prevent the names of major streets becoming gigantic as people zoom in. I don’t think this is a browser problem, I think it’s designed into the maps. Wish I still had my younger eyes.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I tried using Safari and it works fine. It must be a Firefox problem.</p>
<p>Dragonmom, that’s exactly what happens to me. It’s so frustrating.</p>