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 :)
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