I'm starting to re-do a big site that currently has all the font sizing in pixels, changing to em and/or percentage font sizes. What started as a discussion with a print designer on the relative sizes of print (points) to web font sizing, as well as to get my head around what I was doing while changing the site, I created a Font Comparison chart for myself to use as reference.
I'd really appreciate if the gurus here would take a look at the chart (in 2 tables, since it is data) and let me know if I'm understanding the font size question of flexibility /adjustability, etc. Since it's basically for myself, I wasn't worried about the width of the page. I know that points aren't used (or shouldn't be) on the web, but I need the fonts shown in points to prove my point (no pun intended) to the print designer :] The first column with the font family name & pt size is sized in points. The paragraphs I've written at the beginning of the page are more or less notes to myself so a year from now I'll remember what I did and how I made the comparison, but it will also tell you what I'm basing the chart on and what my thinking is... As far a I can tell I have no inheritance from one font and size to another except the body specifies the font as 100.1%. The notes in the paragraph explains everything. As far as I can tell, besides the purely visual difference in em height for different font families, for the most part the em and percentage remains relatively the same, with the main difference between serif and sans serif faces the same as it does when working in print. BTW, I don't know if this makes any difference, but I'm working on a Mac 22" screen with a default of 96 dpi. Here's the link: http://www.odaca.org/0_testFonts/FontEx_All.htm The style sheet is relatively straight forward with comments to myself. Thanks - Susan ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
