Bob Henson <bob.henson@outlook.com> wrote

Having carried on searching myself, I have accidentally stumbled on the answer to the problem. It was not a separate font. When I set up the
phone, one of the display options was to enable high contrast text to improve. Having, as I mentioned, poor eyesight, I set it on.

I just noticed that there is a setting to create a shortcut in my "high contrast fonts" GUI which I hadn't noticed being there before I helped you.
<https://i.postimg.cc/Dzys8fTr/contrast01.jpg>

Maybe "something" I did created this "high contrast font shortcut" option?
<https://i.postimg.cc/BZRZ8Ftc/contrast02.jpg>

Bob... can you check your Samsung (or anyone else with a Samsung) to see if
you also have this "high-contrast-font shortcut" option? Or is it just me?

1. Go to Samsung Android 13 "Settings"
2. Tap "Display" & scroll to the very bottom of the activity
3. Under "Looking for something else?" tap on "Visibility enhancements"
4. Longpress on the "High contrasts fonts=On/Off" description line

When you do that, does another activity pop up which allows you to create
and remove a "High contrast fonts shortcut" with an "on/off" switch?
<https://i.postimg.cc/BZRZ8Ftc/contrast02.jpg>

I don't remember seeing that option to create the font before.
Was it always there?

Or did I add it accidentally (by creating that shortcut on my own)?

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote

You and Andy can tell me if it's similar with the Motorola & Pixel though.

It's similar on the Pixel, but when high-contrast is enabled it only
affects text in a minority of apps, and even then a minority of text
within those apps ... maybe it depends on font size too?

Thanks for confirming the capricious nature of the high-contrast fonts.

You're on a Pixel so you're closer to native Android than we are, where I'd love to know if your high-contrast font setting calls a _different_ package than <com.android.settings>. Does it?

By way of contrast, Samsung starts with com.android.settings activities.
But Samsung jumps to <com.samsung.accessibility> to get to the
high-contrast setting activity on the Samsung Android devices <com.samsung.accessibility.Activities$AccessibilityViewClearActivity>.

Does the Pixel _stay_ in the <com.android.settings> package the whole time?

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