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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/26/75 11:55
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> scripsit:
> I think I had in mind that the body text under h6 would not be
> smaller than h6. But, come to think of it, this might be rather
> odd! It would still be smaller than 1em and so different to the
> rest of the body text under the other headings. I vaguely
> imagined this to be acceptable in the unusual situation of a need
> for h6.
This seems a bit confused, and we are perhaps discussing different design
approaches in a mixed manner.
My suggestion of setting the font size of h6 to 100% was simply aimed at
dealing with the problem that the common browser default is smaller and
makes the h6 text too small. Whether the exact percentage you use is 100% or
110% or 90% is much less important than doing _something_ with the problem
that default rendering makes h6 elements appear in about 63% of the size of
copy text (typically corresponding to <small><small>...</small></small> or
<font size="1">...</font>). The default rendering makes h6 look less
important than copy text and almost or completely unreadable. (If a use can
read text in 63% size, he has very good eyesight and very good browsing
conditions _or_ he has chosen too big a basic font size for his browser.)
The default bolding of headings might be seen as alleviating the problem of
looking less important, but it adds to the second problem: small-size text,
especially in a serif font, is harder to read when bolded.
I did not suggest setting the body text (copy text) size but only heading
sizes, as percentages of body text size. Starting from 100% for <h6> looks
natural, since headings should look at least as important as body text, and
if we have 6 levels of headings, we get to rather huge font size for
highest-level headings if we make lowest-level headings larger than copy
text.
Using h6 { font-size: 90% } might be reasonable if you use a serif font for
headings and a sans serif font for copy text, since the difference between
fonts probably still makes the h6 text look somewhat larger than copy text.
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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