Posted by Toby A Inkster on 08/01/07 10:59

Chaddy2222 wrote:

> Although people do seam to be having some kind of obsetion with really
> small text on the main pages of site, WTF is with that.

Small text looks nice.

It comes from breakfast meetings where the deezyners and client's
marketing department sit around a white coffee table looking at mock-ups
of the site on an enormous plasma screen in a minimalist office, sipping
on cafe lattes and mint tea.

The text on the mockups just reads "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." so
nobody is particularly *interested* in reading it. This is why nobody
notices that they *can't* read it -- it's too small, too low contrast,
or, more usually, both.

Gavin pops his hand up (there's usually a Gavin at these meetings) and
says, "can we make the text a bit of a lighter shade of grey, so that
we can see the logo watermark in the background better?" Everyone nods
in agreement and takes another sip of their latte before nibbling on a
croissant.

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