At 07:45 PM 2/17/2009 -0600, Brian Funk wrote: >The 100% is needed as a base to avoid problems in certain browsers - >others can explain this in detail far better than I. With regard to >respecting users settings it seems more important to create in a way >that the text /can/ be scalable to let them do what they want with >it - hopefully without breaking your page design. Some ways of >sizing prevent this from being possible - or at least make it >difficult or problematic.
Well, in that regard, I've been completely re-doing the CSS for my one of my sites (and, in doing so, that will have ultimately have implications across the board for all of my sites), and I've been trying to take the advice that I've gotten here and have set my base font size at 100%, with all my other font sizes done in percentages relative to that (I'm not using em or px anywhere at all, except for in the tiny copyright notice at the bottom of each page). In that regard, the site you pointed out... >As an "avid typophile" the following page may be interesting to you. ><http://www.webtypography.net/Harmony_and_Counterpoint/Size/3.1.1/> ...brings up exactly what part of my issue is! Firstly, thanks so much for pointing that out -- I'm amazed that I've never come across that site before, and I'll certainly enjoy spending some time there. :) However, it's quite intriguing because Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style" -- upon which that site is based -- has largely influenced me (among other sources) with regard to typographic choices. More specifically, his discussion in that book about the "Golden Section" has had me adopt various font sizes (for headings, etc.) within any particular site by using proportions that fall within that theory/observation of his, and which have made for visually effective and aesthetically pleasing designs. However, the font sizes/proportions/percentages that David mentioned earlier... At 10:02 AM 2/13/2009 -0800, David Hucklesby wrote: >I find that these percentages work best >cross-browser: 69%, 75%, 82%, 94% ... with a base font-size of 100%. ...have nothing to do with the "Golden Section", and to me would look *disproportional* (even if it somehow gets rid of that "blur" effect that was referred to earlier in the thread) and, well, basically that's why I'm wondering what it is that's going on if/when one uses other, different, in-between percentages. On my system (WinXP) everything looks fine, no matter what browser I'm viewing anything in, and no matter what percentage (or pixel size or whatever else) I'm using for my font sizes. By the way, just to throw another question into the fray, is there anything wrong with using non-whole numbers (like 61.8, etc.) in one's font size percentages? For reference, the closest amounts (to one decimal place) to the percentages that David mentioned that would indeed be perfectly within the Golden Section would be: 61.8%, 76.4%, 85.4% and 94.4%. Those are the sorts of percentages that I'd *like* to use, if I could (without causing problems anywhere/anyhow). Ron :) ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
