[thelist] fonts - ok not to define them?

[Tim Beadle]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:54, Diane Soini wrote:
> I haven't scaled the font size to 8pt. I don't use any points at all. I 
> scaled it to 80%. Maybe that is too small, but I don't see how, since 
> every Windows machine I've ever looked at the font sizes appear normal 
> to me.

But what about Windows machines where the user has (intentionally or
not) reduced the default font size to small or extra small?

I seem to recall there being a thread about this a while ago, but Owen
Briggs's font-sizing experiments would seem to be a pertinent link:
http://thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/

One other thing: large headlines are predicted (by Cameron Moll, at
least) to be a New Web Design Trend:
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000031.html

Tim
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