Re: Font Sizing

by Brian Sinclair <sinclair(at)inficad.com>

Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 1997 19:50:07 -0700
To:	Gabriele Endress <gendress(at)symbios.com>, Web Design Theory <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	symbios
	todo: View Thread, Original

Gabi - 

I always use relative sizes.  The editor of a website of which I am a staff
member of told me to do this because many of the people who view it may be
visually impaired, and may have their default font size set to a larger
size, such as 18 or even 24 point.  After doing that a couple of times, it
became a habit.  The only advantage to using absolute sizes would be if you
knew your audience, and wanted something to look exactly the way you saw it.

Brian

>On to my new question:
>
>When dealing with the <font> tag, is it preferable to users to set the
>font sizes in relative or absolute sizes? Does setting relative sizes
>have any affect on layout if a person has defined their default font
>size to be anything other than 12 points? Is there any advantage at all
>to using absolute font sizes?
>
>Gabi
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>Gabriele Endress	Symbios Logic, Inc.
>Assistant Webmaster	Fort Collins, CO
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