> Do you know of a font-size checker. I don't fully trust > firebug's layout > measurement when it comes to font-sizes, as I think it gives > a value for the > entire area that the font covers rather than the equivalent value in > pixels. Or am I wrong and I should trust firebug?
Not sure what you mean, but the first thing to remember is that in CSS, "pixel" doesn't mean "single dot on the screen" as it does in something like Photoshop: <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#x39> In practice, browsers currently do map CSS pixels to device pixels for screen output, although this will change as display technologies improve. > increasingly I get bugs > returned from clients > saying the fonts vary from the original design What do you mean precisely by "the original design"? Do you mean comps produced in Photoshop, Illustrator or some such application? If so you should be aware that these applications tend to render anti-aliased fonts by default, but web browsers on the Windows platform rendering to a non-LCD display (or with an LCD where Microsoft's ClearType technology is not enabled) perform no anti-aliasing. As a result, clients will be shown a lovely anti-aliased design comp, but when they view the actual page on their 3 year old computer with a 7 year old monitor, it will have nasty jagged fonts. It's best to avoid building up their expectations when presenting designs for web pages to them. At a design studio I worked at a few years ago I asked the designers to disable font smoothing in PhotoShop when mocking up web pages. They complained that it made their designs "look ugly", but when I pointed out that they were just seeing what the end users would see, they realised that it was better to work to the limitations of the destination technology, rather than show the client beautifully smooth designs which were not, in reality, achieveable in a web browser on Windows. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
