Posted by Bergamot on 11/14/06 16:27

K A Nuttall wrote:
>
> Say the browser medium typeface is left at the common setting of
> 16px...

You can stop right there. You aren't seeing (or are refusing to see)
that it just doesn't matter whether the browser's factory settings are
used or not.

> For people with a larger base font size, say 18px, h1 would be about
> 21px and p about 14px.

Well heck. If I set my browser default to 18px, then dang it all, that's
what I want. 14px may be barely tolerable for comfortable reading, if
that. You don't get this, do you?

> The point of reducing the wrap to 62.5% is that it's then a piece of
> cake to duplicate design typeface sizes as neat multiples of 10 without
> using a calculator.

I don't see what multiples of 10 have to do with anything.
body {font-size: 100%}
h1 {font-size: 150%}

No calculator required. ;)

> You could equally abandon the font-size on #wrap, and recalculate h1 as
> 1.1875em and p as 0.75em

That's just as bad. Anything less than 100% for paragraph text is
degraded usability. Only designers think otherwise. And only designers
care whether h1 comes out as 20px or 21px. It's just not that important.
If it really is, then HTML is the wrong media for the job. Try PDF or
(worse) Flash.

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Berg

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