Re: px,pn,in,cm or ? Or WHAT?

Hi guys..  I just want to put in a word of caution about using pixels to
size text.

For people (like me) who have their screens set at 1200x1600 resolution, 11
or 12 pixel text is very tiny and hard to read.  If you have the text size
specified in pixels, there's no way I can adjust my browser to make it
larger.  I'd have to reconfigure my whole monitor resolution, and I hate to
do that.

For people over 40 or so, we start to get quite farsighted.  Many of us like
to set the text size larger on our browsers so it's easy to read.  If you
have the text set by pixels, you take that option away from us.

So if your site's target audience is the under-35 set who don't like to set
their monitor resolutions high and don't have any other reason to want the
text nice and large, pixels may be your answer.  otherwise I'd think twice.

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear/

The article at the link above is an excellent and entertaining exploration
of this exact topic..

Best regards,
Kim
kim(at)who-knows.com





> Yes it's a great resource.  Pixels seem to translate most accurately
across
> the browsers.  With the other choices, one must keep in mind that the
pages
> may not look exactly as you expected, especially if you use the smaller
> sizes.  I didn't realize when I received this that MACs saw the fonts so
> differently.
>
> Shelby Cook
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Wilson [mailto:webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:40 AM
> > To: Cook, Shelby; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> > Subject: Re: px,pn,in,cm or ? Or WHAT?
> >
> >
> > > This page was helpful for me:
> > > http://developer.apple.com/internet/_fonts/fonts_gallery.html
> >
> > This is a GREAT link.  There are three generalities that struck home.
> >

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