[Air-l] Web font sizes

[Kylie Veale]

Denise said: >> Ultimately font size is determined by the reader (viewer),
go to the Explorer Menu> View >Font size and select your font size
preference...

Yes, this is correct, UNLESS the designer makes the webpage font 'static'
using style sheets or the like, forcing it to be a specific size regardless
of what font size setting the user has in their browser.

Kylie

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Kylie J. Veale  |  Brisbane, Australia
GradDipInvEnv, MInetStds(Design)
 
PhD Candidate
Media & Information, Curtin University of Technology

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Denise N.
Rall
Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2005 1:04 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; ro.agbonlahor at arcisng.net
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Web font sizes

Sorry I've been on the list a bit but I have to reply
to this.

Ultimately font size is determined by the reader
(viewer), go to the Explorer Menu> View >Font size 
and select your font size preference. I forget what it
is in Netscape, it's in Preferences ?.

I leave my font sizes small when building as it is my
University's preference for a standard web page.  The
size to the viewer is not an issue - the VIEWER can
pick to go larger.

Grandparents who know this leave their Explorer View
font size on larger or largest. So they view every web
page in a large font.  They won't even SEE the small
fonts you are talking about unless someone changes
their settings!  ;-)

Cheers, Denise


--- Rosemary Agbonlahor <ro.agbonlahor at arcisng.net>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Does anyone know why some websites use very small
> Arial type fonts? I asked a colleague and he said it
> was so as to get as much information as possible on
> a page. Have there been studies in this area? 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Rosemary
> 
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