Hello Group, We just launched a redesign on a heavily visited site, our CSS developer is out of the country, and a problem with font sizes has surfaced that I don't know how to answer. I'm hoping to get some help here. A number of customers and a couple of employees are reporting that the fonts are too small and difficult to read. I created a sample page here that pretty much mirrors some of the basic font-size CSS found on the site: http://test.hinshawdesign.com/css/ccy-font-size.html
Our assumption when sizing the fonts was that browsers would be set to the default font size (16px?), unless the user had consciously made a change, in which case they could alter that size if our fonts did not suit their needs. But in talking to some of the people who complained, it came to light that their default font size was set to 12px and they had no idea how to change it. So my question is this. I assume that we could make a temporary fix by changing the font-size on the body tag to 16px at the expense of IE users (correct?), but is there a more long-term fix that would avoid the tiny unreadable text, but not force us to show most users large ugly type that is out of proportion with the design elements of the site? Thanks for any thoughts on this...needless to say it's very unnerving to have these issues pop up at this late date when the author of the CSS is unavailable. Don Hinshaw ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
