Why are the different texts of different sizes in a website?
Their purpose is to be read and they don’t have a lot of interaction. Since people are visiting text-heavy pages with the goal of learning something, you don’t want to make them strain their eyes, so bigger font sizes are what you want.
What are the two types of font styles?
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- Serif. Serif fonts are often considered the most traditional kind of font.
- Sans Serif. Sans-serif fonts have been steadily growing in popularity in recent years.
- Slab Serif. Slab serif fonts are a branch of the overall serif font family we discussed earlier.
- Script.
- Decorative.
Is the font size the same on all mobile phones?
Your goal is to have text that is at the same physical size across all devices that have same physical screen size regardless of pixel density. Nowadays mobile phones are fitting Ultra HD resolutions in palm size screens whereas older phones had much lower pixel density. There was no solution to this problem until recently.
How to set font size relative to device resolution?
Then I set a “base font size”, font size of the element, to 2.67% of devicemin (this was my own arbitrary choice) in pixels. That would, hopefully, make sure that I have the same font size, relative to device resolution, across devices with different resolution.
Why are CSS fonts smaller on smart phones?
That is because of the zoom out scaling that browsers apply by default. In this case, CSS pixel size would become much smaller than actual pixel size. Imagine seeing a desktop size page in a smart phone, just much smaller.
Which is the correct rule for font size?
The rule vmin is quite useful in your context. It takes vmin: 1/100th of the smallest side of your screen. Regardless of orientation. Combining it with the basic 1em in a calc () gives us a great way of applying a small custom responsive aspect on the font-size.