On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you tell if the font is too tall and what is the impact of > choosing such a font? Does it cause the line-height to increase to > accommodate the font or does it just fill in the whitespace and cause > the text to look jumbled?
In short, Verdana (and Helvetica) have greater x-height then Arial. Also Verdana is very "wide" typeface. If you take a body of text in Verdana and Arial you'll notice that Arial (or Helvetica) text usually has greater count of words per line and it's somewhat easier to follow text line with your eyes (you could perhaps say that text has better legibility). Same legibility using Verdana can be achieved by giving her more line height. And, since it is easier to change the font family then line-height and keep "same dose of legibility", I think it is better to leave Arial (12px base font size) as one of default Blueprint fonts because it goes well with 18px line height. If you would try to use Verdana with 12px base font size and use 20 or 22 pixel line height you would have values like 1.666em and 1.833em (rounded up) for your body line height, and that's messy. It would be better to use 64,5% base font size, etc. Or at least I think so :) You can play around and compare various fonts here: http://www.typetester.org/ Davor P.S. Also, feel free to disregard all this as i am not nearly a typography nor CSS expert. :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
