We start with 1em on our site as well, and reduce from there down to 90% and 80%, depending on the context. I try not to have too many different sizes in play throughout the site, but 1em seems to fit our audience: a mix of teenagers and older folks whose visual abilities we can't really predict.
At my last company (a large pharma corp) I raised a huge ruckus in changing our font sizes from 8pt to font-size:small (actually, x-small in quirks mode, which looks like 12pt in IE 6). Anyway, the stakeholders claimed I was crazy and they'd get a ton of complaints that the fonts were too big, when over the next 4 years all we ever heard was appreciation that we'd finally made the portal legible and (better yet) customizable with browser preferences. With relative fonts, we do still get the occasional complaint that our fonts are WAAAY TOO BIG. Every one of those turns out to be from someone who didn't realize their browser text-size was set to extra large, and every one appreciated finding that out. Guess when a site is in the minority appreciating the user's control of his environment, it can be surprising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32812 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
