[thelist] Friday hlp! A reasonable scaled progression for H1 h2 h3 h4

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Fri Oct 17 02:39:41 CDT 2003


On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:45:04 +0100, John C Bullas <jcbullas at nildram.co.uk> 
wrote:

> Colleagues
>
> To best cater for "most" users, what declination of font sizes (in 
> points) would be most acceptable for h1, h2,h3 tags on a page.. sorry if 
> this seems like a no brainer... me researcher not webmaster :)
>
> 18,12,10,8 ???????
>
> FB
>

Why declare them at all?

not giving a font size allows the browser default (which might be 
different for every user.)

useful resource on font-size:

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

(including links to why you shouldn't!)

hth

Tony



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