Arggh Comic Sans - my eyes! my eyes! Ahem.
Being a designer, I don't have a problem with letting the site visitor resize their text to whatever they like. What I do have a problem with is people telling me, that as a designer, I'm arrogant for wanting my fonts to appear slightly smaller than the default in IE/Win. When designing, I preview in Firefox and marvel at how wonderful the fonts look, in all their % and em goodness. Then I switch to IE and spend ages tweaking the sizes to be a smaller, more aesthetically pleasing balance to my layout. There is nothing arrogant about wanting my design translated as close as possible across all platforms, for all visitors. There is only arrogance where the designer (or worse still, the client who the site is for) fixes the font sizes in such a way that the site visitor cannot re-size to their own liking, or re-sizing breaks the overall flow for reading. The biggest problem with font size is the lack of consistency across browsers, platforms and resolutions. Natalie > > > > Where do people get off making this assumption? Where are the poll > > results that show "most people" think browser text is too big? Nearly > > everyone I've run into who thinks browser text is too big is a web page > > designer. Most web browser users I've run into think most web page text > > is too tiny. Based upon total population, the number of users who think > > web page text is too small has to be far greater than the number of > > designers who think the default is too big, who consequently reduce it > > on the pages they create. I'm not alone in this line of thinking: > > http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/font-size-quotes.html > > -- Website Designer/Developer www.nataliebuxton.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
