I'm a print person from way back before we were using these newfangled
computers to do our work. I was also a typesetter.
Serif fonts for body text are great for print, not so much for the
web. Especially as small as you have the text. I'd have to really,
really want to read the article to muddle through all that smallish
serif text. The monitor takes that text and breaks those little serifs
into pixels. Instead of the serifs causing the characters to flow into
each other, as in print, they just get clunky. On a PC - which tends
to thin out the strokes - they're even worse, unless people know how
to set their anti-aliasing (most older users I deal with are lucky to
know how to turn on their computer). Unless your target market is the
twentyish crowd...I'm thinking your demographic is spread out along
the age continuum a little more than that.
Serif headers are a great counterpoint to a sans-serif body.
Theresa
On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:45 PM, David Laakso wrote:
> Brian M. Curran wrote:
>>> Brian M. Curran wrote:
>>>
>>>> The site is www.locallaw11news.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for the reply. I was aware of that. I was wondering if
>> there was a
>> way to proportionally reduce the space, to match the 8% text size
>> reduction?
>> It seems that when I specified 92% that the text size reduced, by the
>> spacing between paragraphs did not???
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> No there is not a way to do that.
>
> It is the same with CSS as it is with print typography. The size of
> the
> type specified is the size of the glyphs of the font specified. The
> horizontal gutters between paragraphs and headings are set with more
> lead in hot-metal; and, they are set with a margin on the Web. In
> other
> words there is no direct correlation between the font-size and the
> horizontal-gutters in CSS, other than the individual browser default
> for
> margin. To kill the default margins add p {margin: 0 0 0 0;}. To
> adjust
> the horizontal-gutter to suit your particular and quite peculiar
> personal concept of typographic taste, tweak the margin-bottom to
> adjust
> the height of the gutter. In hot metal, you would have added or
> removed
> lead.
>
> PS The purpose of typography is to make content readable.
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