I use 1em except when specifying Verdana, which reads well for most people at 0.8em. For what it's worth, I've seen several studies naming the most readable screen fonts as Verdana, Arial, Rockwell and Georgia.
I still go with the old-school notion that serif fonts are easier to read on paper, so my print stylesheets usually set body copy in Georgia or Times New Roman at 10, 11 or 12 points. I see it as my job to make it possible for people to resize type, but I won't add redundant controls or alternative stylesheets to do so. Maybe I'm just stubborn, but I expect users to learn to use their tools. Looks like some comprehensive research on this topic is underway in the UK: http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4642.asp http://www.message.uk.com/textprefs/ When that study is complete, we should have a large enough sampling to give us more information about the broad spectrum of user preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
