Stephen Stagg wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:02:11 +0000: > On 17 Feb 2006, at 00:43, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > It's just a shame that people who pay for web design usually insist > > on the smaller text sizes, because historically 99% of web sites in > > the wild have tended to serve a slightly reduced font size...
> I admit that I'm guilty of this but only because the Windows IE > default font looks UGLY at 100%, Even with ClearType. Perhaps once > everyone has a nice screen-font like Calibri on their Windows > computers, I'll revert to 100%. > The current windows fonts were designed to look best at specific > sizes because of the traditional Aliasing issues. IE and Firefox > default sizes are bigger than this default, meaning that if you want > your text to look nice, then you have to reduce it :(. Please tell us which combination(s) of display size and resolution and at which DPI values your description applies to: 13" on 800x600 14" on 800x600 15" on 800x600 16" on 800x600 17" on 800x600 13" on 1024x768 14" on 1024x768 15" on 1024x768 16" on 1024x768 17" on 1024x768 18" on 1024x768 13" on 1152x864 14" on 1152x864 15" on 1152x864 16" on 1152x864 17" on 1152x864 18" on 1152x864 19" on 1152x864 20" on 1152x864 21" on 1152x864 13" on 1280xX 14" on 1280xX 15" on 1280xX 16" on 1280xX 17" on 1280xX 18" on 1280xX 19" on 1280xX 20" on 1280xX 21" on 1280xX 14" on 1400x1050 15" on 1400x1050 16" on 1400x1050 17" on 1400x1050 18" on 1400x1050 19" on 1400x1050 20" on 1400x1050 21" on 1400x1050 15" on 1600x1200 16" on 1600x1200 17" on 1600x1200 18" on 1600x1200 19" on 1600x1200 20" on 1600x1200 21" on 1600x1200 22" on 1600x1200 16" on 1800x1350 17" on 1800x1350 18" on 1800x1350 19" on 1800x1350 20" on 1800x1350 21" on 1800x1350 22" on 1800x1350 17" on 1920x1440 18" on 1920x1440 19" on 1920x1440 20" on 1920x1440 21" on 1920x1440 22" on 1920x1440 17" on 2048x1536 18" on 2048x1536 19" on 2048x1536 20" on 2048x1536 21" on 2048x1536 22" on 2048x1536 Less than 13" or 800x600 Other -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/auth ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
