On my 13” Mac the 9pt and 10pt also look best.
I tried on an iPhone and on a 6” Lumia, and in both cases all 4 looked nearly
identical (to each other). On the Lumia the text looked quite small and barely
readable even with 12pt.
Yoav
On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh(_at_)joelhalpern(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Thanks Henrik.
On my laptop (Macbook Pro 15" with Retina screen), the 9pt and 10 pt look
best. The 12 looks very large.
On the other hand, on my phone (Samsung S II, not the most current :-)) the
9pt is unreadable. The 12 point actually looks best.
I hope that there is some better way to express the sizing so that it works
well across platforms.
Yours,
Joel
On 4/22/15 1:09 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
Hi Joel,
On 2015-04-22 18:06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
Hi Joel,
On 22 Apr 2015, at 17:49, Joel M. Halpern <jmh(_at_)joelhalpern(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I have to agree that 12pt produces too large a default. Is there an easy
way for me as a user to experiment with what 10pt would look like, so I
can comment on that? And is there an easy way for me to try that size on
my phone, to see if it seems equally readable there?
I'll set up a bunch of sample pages for you to try out.
Here are links to pages set up with 9pt, 10pt, 11pt and 12pt:
https://tools.ietf.org/pt/
Best regards,
Henrik
Best regards,
Henrik
Thanks,
Joel
On 4/22/15 11:42 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
??? You obviously believe that a font size of '1em' or 'medium' is
semantically
more correct than '12pt'. Can you back that up? The CSS 2.1
specification
is very clear about the semantic meaning of point sizes, see Section
4.3.2 of
the CSS 2.1 specifcaiton.
If you don't want to use "1em", please consider "medium", which tells
the browser to use the default size it believes is best based on
defaults and configuration by the user.
That's funny. 'medium' is the default setting, which is what you get
with
1em. Hilarious :-D
Today I thought my browser on my laptop had a bug in it, because it
displayed the draft using insanely big letters and I had to hit ctrl "-"
to bring the size down to something reasonable. Then I noticed this
thread :P
Paul