Hi I wish I could say that we had a strong type strategy. It has shifted a few times. I removed a legacy font style sheet a month or so ago and favored setting a default size in the global style sheet. We then use percentages in various specific styles to bring the sizes towards the visual design. Adding font-size:85%; line-height:120%; brought the default text down to around 11px/15px.
We simply ran out of time and haven't been able to optimize the CSS as much as I'd like to. The site uses conditional comments to take the IE hacks out of the mains CSS files. The fonts are all arial unless we needed verdana here and there and Georgia for user generated content. The one area that I couldn't duplicate the visual design was in the search the web text in the header. I cheated and used an image instead. Thanks for the kind note. Ted -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kvnmcwebn Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:05 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] launch of site: Yahoo! Tech Ted I only have good things to say about the site. i was looking at your style sheets to see how you handle type. can you explain a little about your approach to font sizing/styling on this project. it seems like the typeography on a site like this-especially the product comparison pages could get out of hand. but youve kept it tidy. -best kvnmcwebn ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
