Really small fonts with openbox

Hi All,
I am just trying out openbox as a window manager for my media box which currently is running gnome3 ... trying to slim down.
I find that the font sizes are incredibly small .. so small that in gnome-terminal i can't see anything and can barely read the window fonts ..
Increasing the size of the window fonts in obconf helps a bit but I suspect that my DPI is wrong or something .. (I am using size 13 ttf-dejavu fonts)
Can anyone suggest what to try and fix this? .. I am running a plasma screen at 1080P ..
Thanks.

Calculate DPI ; http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html
And you can set it in .Xresources ; https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_ … _resources
On my TV 1360x768 I've made a compromize with DPI and font size. It seems to be an exact science but in the end, down to your own eyes.

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