[thelist] Css font

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Mon May 10 09:06:30 CDT 2004


On 8 May 2004, at 20:47, Amy wrote:
> I have designed a site where I specify in a style sheet:
> .bodytext { font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: 
> #333333; }
> My client has heard from a customer who is having problems viewing any 
> font
> at all on the site. He sent a screen shot from his computer. I really 
> hope
> that some of you can share your thoughts on what the problem is here.
> I have attached a cropped jpg of what this user sees on his computer.

You tried ... this list doesn't allow attachments though.

I'm guessing you are running into the problem of "Almost no PC in the 
world has their system set so that it knows what the real DPI of the 
screen is".

Avoid pt units for use on screen.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints


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