Just to throw this in the mix -> stop trying to control the font size! I dont require reading glasses (yet...), but due to weak eyesight for small fonts and high-resolution screens causing poor font scaling, I choose to increase the size of the default values for some fonts eg: I setup fonts to be 150% of the page's requirements.
Whatever design you choose, will probably not meet everyones expectations; you can however mitigate most of the problems, by simply not using fixed positioning. cheers, Mathew Robertson > Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello list, > > I am currently investigating the disparities between various screen > fonts and trying to come up with good font stacks that I can use in > Blueprint CSS [1]. I found this page: > > http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_font_font-size-adjust.asp > > which explains how Verdana and Times, for example, have different > aspect values. One of the problems I've had with specifying font > families is that the size of text blocks, and the overall look of a > page, is greatly affected if the user sees it in a different font from > the intended choice, such as Verdana vs. Lucida Grande, because the > actual size of the font (beyond just the font-size property) is vastly > different. A further problem is that recently common fonts such as the > Vista font collection (Calibri, Cambria, etc.) are significantly > smaller at the same font-size as the classic Windows fonts (Arial, > Verdana, Georgia, Trebuchet). Ultimately the goal is to be able to set > up a font stack with fonts that have similar aspect values, letter > widths, spacing, etc. so that the difference from one OS or device to > the next is minimal, but it seems that I would have to adjust the > aspect value with CSS to make that happen. > > So here are my questions: > > - What's the support across browsers / machines for the > font-size-adjust property? > - Is adjusting the aspect value bad form? Is this as bad as > letter-spacing body copy? Would this kill sheep? > - Has anyone done this before? Is there an ideal aspect value for > screen display? > > Thanks in advance. > > [1] http://blueprintcss.org > > -- > -- > Christian Montoya > christianmontoya.net > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
