The Tibetan font in my browser and even Notepad is really small, like this small: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས”. (Using Tibetan(PRC)) I have also downloaded a couple of other Tibetan font packages. All have the same issue on my pc. I have to put them up to size 36 just to see it. No problem with Japanese fonts so it’s not my pc, exactly, but it’s not Memrise, either.
(Same in MS Word, etc.) Is there a setting somewhere that fixes this? Any and all help would be appreciated.
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I found a fix to this here. Note that this overwrites the system’s Himalaya font.
I gave the above fix a try and it did make the text that you posted bigger. It still looks kind of small to me, but that may just be because I’m not familiar with the language 
I had to restart my browser for the changes to take effect.
Thank you. Oddly, that works very, very well in Memrise but doesn’t change
things as much when used (on my pc, at least) in Word. Still, that’s very
helpful. Thanks, again.
With the advent of Unicode Tibetan fonts you could install and select various other fonts for Word and other text input. See http://digitaltibetan.org/index.php/Tibetan_Fonts
I use Kailasa (MacOSX, Word, Pages) most of the time. Tibetan Unicode Machine is also good. Of the paid fonts, me thinks Nitartha Sambhota looks the best. Anyway, as Unicode is a standard you could select any Unicode font you like when editing.
Just to reply to myself and anyone else who might have this issue: For some reason, the first answer from neoncube now seems to work better than when I tried it before. Down the Big Himalaya Font to your Downloads folder (or whatever Mac or IOS) from the above link then double-click on the bigger_himilaya.ttf file. A new window should appear with the option to “Install”. Click on “install”. Seems to work now. I probably didn’t do that simple process correctly the previous go-round. lol Good luck!
I don’t know if the course users will see this font. It depends if the output from the css files respect font name values and export them.
BTW the skinniest fonts I’ve seen are by default on the Windows systems, the Himalaya is very small compared with the default Tibetan system fonts for MacOSX and Chrome/Chromebook/Android.
༙ I think you are right. I just tried using Big Himalayan on the course and
there really wasn’t much change. I was so excited that I didn’t need to use
size 30 font in Excel anymore that I forgot to check how it actually looks
in the actual course. It’s adequate. Then again, both Big Himalayan and
Himalayan both look so small in the online keys and underneath the
transliteration that I am glad I use the Tibetan Keyboard (updated PRC). (I
am used to using other language keyboards so that works okay.) The irony
there is that the Chinese seem to be the only ones who actually seem to
update their Tibetan font work. (Speaking as a guy who barely understand
UTF-8 and is glad to have just found the Touch Keyboard in Windows 10 this
week) Most of the other stuff by the publishing and education communities
doesn’t seem to have been updated in years, or perhaps I don’t know how or
where to look.
I have yet to figure out how to get Tibetan Font onto my Ipad, which is a
few years old but has the latest IOS, 11.something. Better than my old
Galaxy S4, which has no Tibetan font support at all. At least the Ipad will
display the font in the Memrise app, which is then proceeds to butcher is
you use characters that modify the root character. Clearly my karma needs
work. I haven’t figure out how to (or if I even should) use the
Qomolongma Tibetan Keyboard yet (at Yalasoo.com)
thanks!
If you add Tibetan language as a another language into iOS it should install the needed fonts – I think they might even render by default if the language it not set. The fonts are reasonably good. Unlike the Mac you can’t type in Wylie for the fonts, instead you need to learn the soft keyboard layout.
A lot of the issues with the Memrise iOS (and I suspect Android) app is that they should scale up the font pad areas for their built-in keyboard and resize the fonts for high glyph fonts – this is most likely an issue with Kanji and Chinese characters as well. Hard to see small glyph differences, for example between པ and བ . I filed a bug report about it.
I still think Sambhota from Nitharta is the most beautiful Tibetan font, now in Unicode, but you need to pay for it.