re: best body text font size

Hi Robert,

My personal view is that I don't assume any best size for readability, nor
impose it on my site visitors - since I cannot determine the viewer's screen
resolution, platform, installed fonts, colour settings, browser default font
size, large/small fonts choice (Win only) and perhaps most importantly,
visual acuity.

While 10pt or px may be fine for you, it might be impossible for someone who
can't see as well. Though this may not seem important, remember that the
"silver surfer" is an important and growing sector of the online population,
and as I'm beginning to find out myself, the older we get, the less well we
see in general.

Having said that, I have been fortunate in that the sites I've done haven't
called for DTP-like precision - which is largely an illusion on the web of
course <G>

Re MACs and PCs, see http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo.htm

though I just read that new MAC screens will use the same pixel/point ratio
as PC screens. Can't remember where, annoyingly.

My take on fonts and accessibility (a hobby horse of mine) is at

http://ois.co.uk/web/articles/font-access.shtml

Kind regards,

Lois Wakeman
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http://lois.co.uk
http://siteusability.com
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