Re: [wgo] Tuning one page

["Quim Gil" <qgil gnome org>]

What is stopping us from signing off a collection of font families and
sized to be used in wgo?

http://www.gnome.org/ - http://yahoo.com - http://cnn.com/ -
http://www.apple.com/

Can we take these sites as a reference? I think they are showing a
good collection of font sizes.


On 2/4/07, Joachim <joachim gnome googlemail com> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Quim Gil <quimgil gmail com> wrote:
>
> (snipping lots of stuff I agree with)
>
> > - We need to agree the font type and size. The current one looks too
> > small, do you agree?
>
> Yes, it's too small.
> There's a bit of an issue here, which I hope doesn't turn into a massive
> debate like the XHTML.
> Basically, for reasons of accessibility and sheer politeness to the user,
> web pages shouldn't reset the based font-size. They should assume that the
> default body text size is what the user is comfortable reading.
> However, because all browsers have set this slightly too large, and because
> few users actually know how to or bother to change it, most sites that want
> to look cool and groovy (mea culpa) reduce this, usually to 80%.
>  So we now have a sort of mess across the web, where if you do choose to
> reduce your default font size, lots of sites will need a microscope to read.
>
> I note that our existing gnome.org site does the Right Thing, though it's
> slightly smaller on my screen than if I set the plone site to 100%. Not sure
> why that is.


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