I dunno how I ended up there, but I found myself on the wikipedia entry for the name of Japan (Nihon?) which has a lot of Chinese and Japanese script.
It looks very cramped in whatever my default font size is, and a lot of the detail seems difficult to pick out. Particularly in the (I assume) traditional Chinese. Example: 大清帝國
Which got me wondering about font size. Do users of these scripts have different defaults? Or is it just because I’m not used to reading it?
Not too badly. In smaller font sizes, it can be hard to make out individual components of a given character, but in context with other familiar characters, your mind is able to sort of fill in the gaps just through pattern recognition.