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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 03/25/06 18:26
Cerebral Believer wrote:
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> news:44255fbb$0$3700$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net...
>> Cerebral Believer wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am keen to allow people who view my site to be able to resize the text
>>> in their browsers (especially for people who need to read larger text).
>>> With my old web-page I specified the point size in the HTML code, and
>>> noticed that when using Internet Explorer the text could not be resized.
>>> In designing my new site I have chosen to express the text sizes as
>>> percentages in a stylesheet, e.g.
>>>
>>> .side_panel_title {
>>> font : bold 50% 'Trebuchet MS',
>>> 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
>>> color : #990000;
>>> }
>>> .side_panel_text {
>>> font : 50% 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida
>>> Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
>>> color : #373737;
>>> }
>>>
>>> I did this thinking that the viewers of my web-pages would be able to
>>> select larger font sizes for viewing by adjusting their browser text
>>> settings. However, when the page is rendered in Internet Explorer, the
>>> text only appears in a readable size (the size I actually designed the
>>> page) when the "View | Text Size | Largest" setting is selected. I had
>>> thought that users would be able to increase the size text to a larger
>>> size than the sizes I used to design the page in order to make the text
>>> easier to read - that is what I want to achieve, that is the same effect
>>> as on the w3org site http://www.w3.org/. What am I doing wrong?
>> font: bold 50% 'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
>> ^^^^
>> THAT! 50% in incredibly small!
>>
>> BODY { font-size: 100%; }
>> .anything_else not smaller than 75%, 80% is usually the preferred smallest
>> for stuff like boilerplate.
>
> Yes, thanks for that you are right, that text size is small. I had used
> that size because, given the way I had formed my CSS & HTML, it rendered the
> way I prefer to see it in my browser, but since I modified my CSS the way
> you suggested I can see why I should use a larger size. The only issue I
> have now is that the text does appear to be bold when in larger sizes, and I
> would have liked to keep the text in the same weight as I would usually see
> it on my screen, I will experiemnt with the font-weight.
>
Actually Toby had a very good argument and demo on default font size:
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/web-fonts
Fonts — Toby Inkster
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Take care,
Jonathan
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