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What is the best font and size?
16px is the ideal font size for your main body text. It’s neither too small nor too big, so it really helps improve your paragraph’s readability.
Why are bigger fonts important?
Words presented in larger font size are considered more memorable and rated with higher judgments of learning (JOLs). One explanation for this phenomenon is that people believe that font size affects memory.
Does it matter if a report has a different font size?
If the user tries to resize the text through his browser, any element with an absolute font size will not change, although any other element will. This prevents users from making your page’s text larger if they need to see it more clearly, or smaller if they think it’s too big. This probably all seems very simple.
How to set font size to 150% for all users?
I have a client who is trying to set the text size under ‘Display’ to 150% so that it defaults to 150% for any user that logs in. It’s for a boardroom computer with a massive 80″ screen, and is used by many different people who will need the size to stay (so that they don’t have to login – change – log out/in again).
For those few experienced users who do prevail and restore the missing button to their customized toolbar, actually changing the text size in IE6 requires several steps: Acquire the button by moving the mouse pointer over it. Since buttons are reasonably big in IE, this step is fairly quick according to Fitts’s Law. Press down the mouse button.
What’s the default font size for a style sheet?
Do not use absolute font sizes in your style sheets. Code font sizes in relative terms, typically using percentages such as 120% for big text and 90% for small text. Make your default font size reasonably big (at least 10 point) so that very few users have to resort to manual overrides.
Which is an example of the problem of font size?
The Web is no stranger to this problem, and has experienced many innovations that would have been best avoided. Examples include frames, changing the color of browser scrollbars, and scrolling text.