[thelist] Font Size

Bertilo Wennergren bertilow at gmx.net
Fri Sep 27 18:23:09 CDT 2002


Tom Dell'Aringa:

> --- Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow at gmx.net> wrote:

>> You have no idea what the base font size in the user browser is,
>> except
>> that it most probably is the size that he himself finds the most
>> comfortable one for basic text (otherwise he would have picked
>> something
>> else). Thus setting it to something smaller means setting it to
>> something that is to small for the reader. Why would you want text
>> size
>> that is too small?

>> 100% means "just right for basic text", per definition.

> But, you are making the assumption the USER set their text size.

Some (actually very many, or most) just go with the default setting,
whatever that might be. For some of those people that default is bigger
than what they would actually be most comfortable with. For others it is
smaller than what they really would prefer. For others it happens to be
just right.

Whatever you do besides using "100%" for basic text, is going to upset
some of these people.

Actually this whole thing is brilliantly explained in this page:

  <http://css.nu/articles/font-analogy.html>

Read it very carefully, and then think about it for a while.

--
Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow at gmx.net> <http://www.bertilow.com>




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