font sizes on new website

[Noah Botimer]

As just a random, uneducated (though picky, and slightly astigmatic)  
viewer on a 133ppi LCD...

The Verdana flavor is the most readable of these to me. However, the  
calculated size I'm seeing is 11.7px, which feels slightly smaller  
than ideal to me. It doesn't seem that any of the pages are dense  
enough to need to go tiny. Bumping by one notch in Firefox makes the  
body copy feel great.

Two things I'd go for in addition to a slight size bump: a px or two  
more line spacing for normal paragraph text, and a few px between  
bullet items (the lines on the goals page have the same spacing  
within or between li's, which hurts scannability for me).

The new stuff looks really nice!

Cheers,
-Noah

On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Jacob Farber wrote:

> I always found Tahoma and Verdana to be superior to Arial in  
> readability....
> Jacob
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Laurel A. Williams  
> <laurel.williams at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> As there was much feedback about the fonts used on the website,  
> I've re-styled a few pages as demos. Hopefully you can ignore the  
> differences between the pages listed below and just focus on the  
> font style and sizes. I am only using the fss for font size and  
> style on these pages. The base font size used is fl-font-size-90,  
> but we can go larger if required.
>
> http://www.fluidproject.org/home2 (verdana)
>
> http://www.fluidproject.org/mission2 (arial)
>
> http://www.fluidproject.org/goals2 (sans - this is a general fss  
> font family tag that looks like - font-family: Tahoma, Verdana,  
> Helvetica, sans-serif)
>
> I'm partial to the first one at this font-size - as Colin noted it  
> is a little bigger.
>
> Laurel
>
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> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
> University of Toronto
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