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Tiny print on product directions.

(15 Posts)
henetha Mon 02-Oct-17 11:55:07

I totally agree. Small print is a big nuisance.

NanaandGrampy Mon 02-Oct-17 11:52:06

I have reached an age and an attitude that I am grateful for tiny print on chocolate bars....can't read the calorific content - its obviously free !! smile

goldengirl Mon 02-Oct-17 10:43:02

Hear! Hear! I find it difficult to read labels and when I have and if it's a bottle, jar or peel top I have problems with those too!!!

ajanela Mon 02-Oct-17 10:03:42

Missadventure - I am there with the card numbers, usually have to put them under a lamp to make sure I have it right which is so important. Surely the people who design these cards should test them.

Deedaa Sun 01-Oct-17 20:04:33

And don't forget all the labels which are black with very small white writing!

midgey Sun 01-Oct-17 19:42:29

Tesco have changed their shelf labels.....so instead of being readable now I have ask or more often guess if it's a good buy or not!

MissAdventure Sun 01-Oct-17 19:24:26

The print isn't particularly small, but I have trouble reading my debit card details. The words are a silvery colour, which seems to fade in time. (Or maybe my eyesight has faded!)

eazybee Sun 01-Oct-17 18:58:28

I hate the small identical bottles of shower gel and shampoo found in hotel bathrooms; impossible to read which is which, even out of the shower with glasses on, as there is always something printed on the reverse of the bottle which imposes itself on the name as you hold it up to the light. Why?

ajanela Sun 01-Oct-17 13:08:32

I shall use the photo idea and look for the app but we should not have to do that. Many people do not have access to these gadgets

Morgans I forgot about the bottom shelf labels and I seem to always chose the item without a price label.

grannysue05 Sun 01-Oct-17 12:59:34

I bought a pair of M & S panties recently, and there were FOUR satin labels sewn into the waistband.
Each label contained tiny instructions for washing/fabric content/size etc. in many languages.
To wear the pants with the labels still sewn in was ...well....very itchy, and I cut them all out.
This labelling of everything must be a regulation now.

Chewbacca Sun 01-Oct-17 11:36:47

I had to ask a young man in the supermarket if he could read a label on the side of a box for me this week. The writing was so tiny, and in several languages, that whether I put my glasses on, or took them off, it was impossible to decipher. Really irritating.

Morgana Sun 01-Oct-17 11:11:04

Quite agree and how about those tiny labels on the bottom shelf in supermarkets? I would have to lie on the floor to read them!

JackyB Sun 01-Oct-17 10:41:54

I hold my phone over them, using the camera function, and then enlarge the picture. If it's a lot to read, you can take the picture first and enlarge it, so you don't have to hold the phone still for ages.

There are also magnifier apps which sort of do the same thing. I used to have one of them on my phone but it ran out of space and I had to ditch several apps.

MawBroon Sun 01-Oct-17 10:28:02

Despite hating this phrase
“Tell me about it”
I spend more time TAKING my varifocals OFF to read a label, putting them down then losing them!

ajanela Sun 01-Oct-17 10:25:57

I get so frustrated by the tiny print used for the directions and safety warnings on many household products including cleaning and washing products, directions for garden products like fertilizers, foods contents etc. What is the point of putting them if they can't be read? Even the warning pictures are sometimes they are very small and I don't always know what they mean.

It is the directions for use which I want to know and never sure how much product to use for different clothes washes. They keep changing the way the product is presented, liquid, powder, capsules. Then there are the measures, do they go in the machine or poured into the despenser. Recently I discovered I needed to put the capsule in the machine before the washing or it didn't dissolve properly, on close examination of the directions I saw this.

I do wear glasses and I have my eyes checked regularly and can read the very small print on the test. I always try to find a good light. I suppose I will have to keep the magnifying glass more at hand but many people don't have one.

Is there any organisation in the UK we could complain to, would gransnet express our concerns if enough gransnetters felt the same.? After all if you can't read the instructions it is dangerous.