Subject: Writing font size on iblindness.org.

It would look way cooler set at Arial size 10. 

Right now it looks a bit weird set so big.

It would also be easier on the eyes.

What d'ya think?

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Hello, dear Kazekage,

I think our website is excellently designed. Recently I have visited more than a few websites dedicated to vision improvement that are what I call “peeled eyeball�  -- garishly clashing colors, a multitude of font types and sizes, completely devoid of any sense of “design�. One wonders if they were even created specifically for the vision-challenged.

Our site’s design is professional-quality, very easy to navigate and lends itself to text-size adjustment on-the-fly.

Looking at the source code, I would say that the text size of our site's Arial font is in relative em units, which enable the default text-size to be rendered by any monitor setting. Typographically, the default text-size is likely likely between 11-to-12 points. 12 pt type has a 9 pt cap-height or 1/8 of an inch, and most books are typeset in 11-to-12 pt, depending on the font. Because Arial is a san-serif font (no decorative details on the strokes of letters), the eye sees Arial as larger than a same-size serif face (like Times Roman).

Our site’s text scales consistently well and allows every reader to adjust the text size smaller or larger at any monitor resolution. When a web font is fixed to a certain point size, text-size displays well only at a particular screen resolution. Em units are not resolution-dependent and allow readers to adjust the text size whatever the resolution of their monitor. In other words, something like that.

Warm regards, Catherine

Thanks for the suggestion!

I noticed the font size is a bit bigger on iblindness.org than my other sites. I'll think about reducing it a bit. One person in the past thought it was way to small, and in an email to me he went on a tirade about how it's impossible to read and how it must be some kind of sick joke. But that was an exceptional case, I think!

What I do to change text size in my browser is hold down Ctrl and move my mouse scroll wheel up or down. There's other ways to do it depending on the browser you use.

David

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Wow, cool Dave. This works perfectly! =D

Never mind changing the actual font size, this does the trick 

Thank you for the reply, Catherine

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haha I think the person who complained about the text size had a bad browser setting.  You can set the default font size: under View>text size>...  (for firefox)

with Mozilla Firefox, you simply use ctrl-+ and get good magnification as big as you want.  Ctrl-[-] (control and minus) shrinks it.

Thx, NoBones.

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