[thelist] Font Sizes
Aaron Cole
awcole72 at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 4 00:54:01 CDT 2002
I set mine to 90%. That seems to look acceptable in most browsers.
Anything less than that and I've been discovering that sites on Macs become
illegible.
>From: Ben Dyer <ben_dyer at imaginuity.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: [thelist] Font Sizes
>Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:43:35 -0500
>
>For years, I've always used 12px (or, back in the day, <font size="2">) as
>a default font size for body text. But lately I see more and more
>designers wanting to use 10px for body text. Am I really out of line to
>think that 10px or so is too small for a default font size? It seems to be
>very hard to read, even for me (although, admittedly, I do have poor
>eyesight). What does everyone else use for a default?
>
>(Disclaimer: Of course, in a perfect world, the user would be able to
>control the font size, etc., but there is still always a default font size
>to start with.)
>
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>--Ben
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