Question

I’m creating dynamic site with Php and Mysql. I’ve both English and Bangla content in my site. But issue is, it’s look too much small then English text. So that can’t read Bangla content. Is there any way to increase the Bangla font size. I can’t increase the Bangla font size. Please see http://www.favoritebd.com then you can understand what i’m asking…

Answer 1

I presume you mean that you would like to increase the size of Bangla characters with respect to Latin (English) letters. This is very understandable, since now in my viewing conditions, which are probably rather typical, the Latin letters are readable whereas the Bangla characters, which are much richer in details, are probably less convenient to read.

The reason is that the page sets font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif but neither Arial nor Helvetica contains (as far as I know) Bangla characters. This means that they will be taken from a “backup” font, which is typically Vrinda (on Windows; see list of Windows fonts by language). The Latin letters are still taken from Arial, which is a font with rather different characteristics.

The solution is change the font settings so that you suggest only fonts that contain all the characters used on the page, or at least all normal letters in all languages used. Base on the information at fileformat.info on font support and on the fact that Vrinda has support, too, I would suggest

font-family: Vrinda, Arial Unicode MS, Likhan, Rupali, SoleimanLipi, Code2000

and adding some of the Ekushey fonts there.

Then you can consider whether your font size is suitable, and perhaps increase it or remove the overall font-size setting (i.e., let browsers use their defaults).

Related document (mainly on special symbols, but has some applicability to normal text, too): Guide to using special characters in HTML.