Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the right default font size for a website?

2008-09-24 Thread Marty DeAngelo
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Ho Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the right default font size for a website? From HFI - 14 pt in Helvetica or Arial. Interesting how most

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the right default font size for a website?

2008-09-11 Thread Bill Caemmerer
A List Apart has some great articles on http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/typography/ web typography ... particularly http://www.alistapart.com/articles/howtosizetextincss How to Size Text in CSS , which explains how you can set your type as a percentage of the user's default font size

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the right default font size for a website?

2008-09-10 Thread Yohan Creemers
Hi Nick, It depends of course on the target group and the intended purpose of the site. Furthermore it depends on font (serif requires a larger font-size than sans-serif), character set (Arabic requires a larger font-size than Latin) and contrast between text and background. As default for a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the right default font size for a website?

2008-09-10 Thread Benjamin Ho
From HFI - 14 pt in Helvetica or Arial. Interesting how most websites are built less than 14pt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32812

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the right default font size for a website?

2008-09-10 Thread Jared Spool
On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Yohan Creemers wrote: Font-sizes are easy to test in a usability test and easy to adjust to the test results. This is where one of the big benefits of remote testing come through: You can see the user's screen and browser configurations, to see if they have