掲示板 Forums - Make little/normal Furigana above Kanji more distinguishable
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I'm new to the site + japanese learning, so I might just need to acquire an eye for noticing the differences. However, for the vocabulary study intro boxes (the sliding ones you get before starting a quiz) I've found it very difficult to distinguish the small-sized "ゃ/ゅ/ょ" from normal-sized "や/ゆ/よ" Furigana above unlearned Kanji.
I've gone into the web element explorer to manually input both big/small kana versions to see if there is an actual difference in size, which there is, but it's somewhat subtle for a beginner like me. So my suggestion would be to modify font characteristics of the ruby text elements in introductory vocab study cards such that size difference between little/normal characters is more noticeable.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of my 練習する intro sliding box vocab card after manually editing it in Firefoxes' element explorer: (Putting them together, I can definitely tell the difference, but seeing it alone I usually can't)
Definitely not the biggest issue, since I can instantly look it up by clicking the Kanji, but I find it mildly frustrating, at least for now until I can learn to see the difference in the wild.
So I did a thing. I was curious so I opened the app on my mobile android phone to see if I could tell the difference. Turns out I *could* clearly see the little ゅ on my phone. But it had me staring very closely between my laptop screenshots and my phone side-by-side, and in a bout of frustration I decided to test both out by overlaying screenshots.
I overlaid my laptop's screenshot (slightly transparent, as indicated by red arrow) over my mobile phone's screenshot, and tried to align them as best I could:
I think this illustrates that there's definitely something significantly different about the little furigana characters (specifically the introductory vocab card furigana-above-kanji characters) between some platforms.
FYI: Renshuu on my laptop is running on Firefox in Fedora Linux, so maybe its a default font issue with my laptop or the browser.
Thanks for your response! Fair enough, I too think a solution that shrunk specific characters based on context is not ideal, especially since this is demonstrably not an issue on platforms other than my Fedora Linux laptop (typing from a windows desktop right now on Firefox, and the quiz card looks fine). In other words, the risk to fix it is greater than the problem being solved.
I'm personally still intrigued as to why my Linux laptop hiccups on the ruby text annotation specifically, but I'll drop it since that's my own hyper fixation (AKA: procrastinating by distracting myself from what I should actually be doing: my vocab quizzes 
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And I just saw now it also happens elsewhere on the site, as shown here in Grammar section, so my previous assumption that it's limited to just vocab study cards is false.
Linux Firefox:
Linux Brave Browser:
I do not have Renshuu Pro right now, although I thought i recalled there being a temporary trial option which I can't find for the life of me right now (maybe during the last sale?). If you could grant me a temporary pro subscription I definitely could compare the premium fonts and report my findings here or somewhere else
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I'm also on the Discord under Tealtime as well, if you'd rather me post there.
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