RE: font size

better to use relative sizes.  That way if the user resizes fonts locally,
everything is proportional.
Kate Pollara

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Jim Tom Polk
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 2:34 PM
To: hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: Re: font size


> I've used specific font sizing (size 2 Arial,
> Helvetica) for specific areas and the default for the BODY is 8pt Arial.

I use a standard rule of thumb to never decrease a font size to less
than 8pt. I run a UNIX box and like the MAC, I see fonts smaller than
what Windows users see them, so I naturally never go below 10pt in a
style sheet, even though 90 percent of my target group is using Windows
and is using MSIE.

That is one reason.

The other, when I look at your css file (text.css), you have the
following:

font-size: 8pt;
font-family: Arial;

---> what happens her is the following. 8pt is really too small for a
Mac, but what if the Mac in question does NOT have the Arial font?? Then
the problem is even worse!!

Then it will display the text in 8pt Times!!!!

Some relief can be had by being more specific:

font-size: 8pt;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

...the thing to note is not only is 8pt hard to read for Mac users (and
anyone who is a little hard of seeing), but that the ONLY way to get it
to be at all legiable is to have it in a sans-serif font.

I would change the specification to the following:

A {
font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-sytel: normal;
		etc, etc, etc...

}

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