RE: Text line length - Was: [Seen this lately?]

At 07:51 PM 1/25/2001, Freda Lockert wrote:

>Proper browser support for the line height property would solve a lot of 
>font readability problems, it's top of my wish list (apart from a decent 
>burial for Comic Sans).



Mwahahaha! Freda, you just hit on two of my own biggest pet peeves. I adore 
the line-height property, and the very small designer inside me just sighs 
with contentment at looking at a really pretty paragraph done up in a nice 
tight sans-serif font with about 2 em line height. Someday I'll be able to 
use it. ;)

As for Comic Sans, the mere sight of it sets my teeth on edge, and it's one 
of the quickest ways to get me to ignore or leave a website (right up there 
huge images who's size isn't defined in the page, and just below sound that 
launches on load and those stupid fireworks javascript things). This font 
is, IMO, a dead giveaway that the person who authored the page doesn't know 
what they're doing, and always leaves me with a vague impression about the 
TYPE of personality who created the site (something I know is silly to do, 
but I just can't avoid it).

Thanks for the nice laugh this early on a Saturday (yeah, I'm WAY behind in 
reading my mail).

Jeniffer
OffLead Productions

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