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Mar 20.2003

What do you think about print font size?

A lot of sites, particularly (it seems to me ) among web developers and ‘creative’ types have almost microscopic print that is really testing on the eyes.

Is this cool / trendy / fashionable/

Call me old-fashioned but I like my potential customers to be able to actually READ my copy!

Any comments?

Thanks

Maverick

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@Chopper_WeeDMar 20.2003 — What Screen resolution do you use?

Anything bigger than 1024*768 and the text will look small

Otherwise I havnt seen what your talking about, give us a link example.

Cheers

Chopper ?
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@maverickauthorMar 20.2003 — Maybe microscopic is a bit of an exageration - but here is a link I got purely at random by going over to Google - I think some people would have difficulty reading this - I use 1024x768

[URL=http://www.lynda.com/]http://www.lynda.com/[/URL]
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@Chopper_WeeDMar 20.2003 — I mean no offence to you.

At my work I'm using 1600*1200 on a 19" monitor thus meaning text will be smaller. Lynda's page did appear small but I'm still able to read the website. Strangly enough, I droped my resolution down to 1024*768 and it became all pixalated like a zoomed in picture and slightly difficult to read.

Could be the browser

Im using IE6

Maybe you need to eat more carrots ?

Personally, I have never had a problem viewing websites and I dont wear glasses.


All the best for a perfect world,

Chopper
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@Compguy_PeteMar 21.2003 — The text is rather small on that site.

It’s set at font-size: 9px from looking at the Style Sheet.

That is small and it looks like it's more a matter of bad design, by trying to cram as much as possible on the page as possible.

I had this discussion tonight in one of my web design classes I teach and my student wanted to use a 14px font on her site. I was rather shocked because that’s more of a heading size vs. a regular font size.

As a general rule I try to use a 12px font size and 8 or 9px only in cases of fine print.

Also what I notice about that site is that they have a fixed design. Where a larger font could easily fill that page allowing it to be flexible...

So to answer you question maverick, I think it's been designed by someone who has just discovered CSS and has eyes like a hawk.
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