When the phone is a few feet away from me at night, I can look over at it and see the date/time/battery%/Weather perfectly fine. But as for the notification icons, they all just look like tiny blobs. I wish I could make them as large as the battery indicator widget. I doubt it's possible but worth asking just in case I somehow missed it in the options I searched through. Or perhaps there's a third party app/widget that can show them instead.