What is stopping us from signing off a collection of font families and sized to be used in wgo?
http://www.gnome.org/ - http://yahoo.com - http://cnn.com/ - http://www.apple.com/ Can we take these sites as a reference? I think they are showing a good collection of font sizes. On 2/4/07, Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2/4/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snipping lots of stuff I agree with) > > > - We need to agree the font type and size. The current one looks too > > small, do you agree? > > Yes, it's too small. > There's a bit of an issue here, which I hope doesn't turn into a massive > debate like the XHTML. > Basically, for reasons of accessibility and sheer politeness to the user, > web pages shouldn't reset the based font-size. They should assume that the > default body text size is what the user is comfortable reading. > However, because all browsers have set this slightly too large, and because > few users actually know how to or bother to change it, most sites that want > to look cool and groovy (mea culpa) reduce this, usually to 80%. > So we now have a sort of mess across the web, where if you do choose to > reduce your default font size, lots of sites will need a microscope to read. > > I note that our existing gnome.org site does the Right Thing, though it's > slightly smaller on my screen than if I set the plone site to 100%. Not sure > why that is. > -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
