Julian Voelcker wrote Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:30:10 -0000: > I am struggling to educate the design team about using sensible font > sizes - all their designs come out with tiny fonts and then when I > create the layout with sensible sizes it tends to knock out the layout. > One of the biggest problems is that they bounce around design 'proofs' > in PDF format so when expanded on their big monitors the font sizes > look fine. > I have tried every trick in the book and still can't get them to change > their habit. > Have any of you come across any good sites covering the issue of font > sizes and providing sensible (and preferably backed up) guidelines that > I can wave infront of them saying 'it's not just me'?
Notice the really old dates in the first one: http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/points/dump.html http://css.nu/articles/font-analogy.html http://www.w3.org/2003/07/30-font-size http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/ http://www.digital-web.com/articles/fluid_thinking/ http://evolt.org/article/Liquid_Design_for_the_Web/20/15177/index.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/accessibility.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/defaultsize.html Sometimes it helps to have them veto themselves with a camera and a snapshot of them leaning forward in their chair to see better. Also, for those who don't already wear glasses, find a pair of glasses to emulate myopia so that they can see as many older folks see. Be sure to have a high resolution laptop to have them view with as well. For more links, visit http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/wauth2.html -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
