On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Kristina Floyd wrote: > Do you know of a font-size checker.
Please explain what you mean by "font-size checker". Do you mean software that shows you the actual font size used in some piece of a web page? Using Firefox extensions like the Web Developer Extension or Firebug is probably the most common approach. > 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? This sounds like you expect the font size to be something else than the total height of the font. It can be expressed in different units (pixels, points, etc.), with some rounding effects, but what really makes you think Firebug gives you wrong figures. > I appreciate, the measured font-size will vary across DPI's etc, but it > would be very useful to have a benchmark. I have been using the Owen Briggs > method for some time now, but increasingly I get bugs returned from clients > saying the fonts vary from the original design, so I'm losing faith in Owens > method, and am wondering if perhaps a fixed font size is the root to go, > making a seperate stylesheet for IE6. As all browsers resize fonts apart > form IE6. Sorry but that doesn't really clarify the situation. Owen Briggs describes some methods of _setting_ fonts. And IE 7 does not resize fonts any more (or any less) than IE 6 does. (However, people often confuse zooming with font resizing.) -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
