Does size matter?

The size has now imported more than 50 end-users who have left their eyes on this interesting article and their fifties and both reviews.

The utopia of a network 100% accessible when its clients only see $ $ $ only have my faith and not when the technology designers strive more. Are browsers who should customize the user experience, this makes its configuration and decide how to navigate, that's the experience you are looking for.

It is worth, depends on the usage chart that the customer will want to work on em or%. Anyway I agree that users can then raise (Ctrl +) or decrease (Ctrl-) to taste and need. And in my case, yes I use ClearType. (For the record if there are poll)

Standard 100% reader-friendly

Accesibilidad I have computers since the days of Maricastaña. Step up to date, some 10 or 15 hours over-the-looking screen of my Mac. Reading is one of the first activities on the computer. Actually, from 2 years ago, with some difficulties.

One day I walked out of work, and quite tired by the way, while walking home, I realized that he could not read any sign of a clear as I thought. I could not believe it. I never had vision problems, or anything like that. At first he had not paid attention to the issue, but after two weeks, I did the same thing. I thought it was tiredness, but was in sight. I went to the eye, I did some checking and in fact, had vision problems. The eye doctor told me that they were not serious. Do not use increases, but some corrective lenses with a slight increase. He told me that for as the subject, or read books dozens a day or I spent much time in front of the computer. It was the second. He told me that a lot of people will fuck sight reading on the computer, especially the factors of lighting displays, the number of hours in front of the screen and the approach they have with it.

By giving me the glasses, told me to try to raise the size of the text to read whenever I could, and forced the hearing as little as possible. From that moment on, I began to gradually raise the font size on my site, and the other through the browser. Not too late, I started to see the advantages of reading with lyrics, a little bigger than usual (11px to 12px). Few sites and pass this measure, really grateful when they use large fonts.

And why I'm writing this? Because today I was reading a conversation between blogs on the topic: the use of large fonts on websites, especially blogs.

Today my site, not because they started this talk-has a fairly large font size to normal. I do not move in with pixels values, I use em for almost everything related to fonts. There are two types of units of measure: relative and absolute. Units of action on a measure specified in relation to property of another measure. The measure em is relative, which will depend on another base value, either its own browser, or specified by the user or the author on the base element <body> The body type on this weblog, I believe it is .9em that would amount to about 15px for the rest of mortals who read the blog if you use Firefox or Internet Explorer on Windows-based configuration with-and depending on configuration their disposal. Usually, for some newspapers, magazines and blogs is to use this font size for the titles and not for the texts. The texts, in small print. I never accepted that the fine print are better than large ones. Perhaps, while others like me, we put more on the balance aesthetics it useful. It's a weakness that we bring the flesh and blood. But that was over a while ago, and friends, I regret to say that it is not fashionable. This is from long ago. The letter came and stayed big for that: to facilitate the dozen hours in front of the computer screen of the damned.

There are those who are angry with this. There are those who worship. The first day I got the letter from the site more than 11 pixels, people complained. People say not to say five people in a thousand who read a daily basis. At 8 months back I changed sizes. Was a result of increasing my web browser with the controls. Just gave me great pleasure to see him well, with those sizes, and each time it cost me less to read comments from people. I get a day over 100 comments and are grateful to have this size to be able to read the views of the people.

Jonathan wrote an article about reading easy it has many interesting points. As well as explains, large letters, read without effort. But the problem that I see in these things is that it is not always applicable in this design, in a less corporate. Not because it is ugly-this is working as designed, but because they use many types major complicating things, including available space and the possibility of certain content to be in sight. If we followed the text of Jonathan literally, many sites have miles pages of content. Some photos would give the impression of being more icons that photographs. The balance sheet is corrompería in many cases. That's why, in my opinion, get disproportionately large sizes of no help, but not in large fonts exaggeration. Zeldman studies conducted years ago on this, and gave as results in most cases, typography of 13px was read by more than 80% of participants without difficulty. When it reduced the 11px aesthetics, depending on whether it was the font-sans-serif or was reduced to 60%.

In my tests, the results did not vary much. Now I am implementing sizes larger than the 13px with very good results. The contrast is seen in more relevant ways to stand out more fonts and the range of accessibility that I'm giving is much higher above the average.

Federico emphasizes the theme but I think, in my opinion, which reads forgot something: to use large fonts is not a problem. The problem is in how designers use these fonts. In the cases that we see large fonts and we hurt the hearing, it is because you have not found the balance that harmonizes everything. Many know what I mean: the sizes of the titles in the blanks, the interlining, and so on.

Today, many online media are adapting these measures. Some are in the range of 11px/13px and others, such as 20 Minutes, is at greater ranges. The point is: I read better thanks to these details. Not only by the size of fonts, but for the excellent proportion that the designers have used.

Large letters, users are happy and healthy, less blind and more readers.

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Published: January 16, 2007 | 11:43 PM

Categories: Accessibility, CMS, CSS, Graphic Design, Web Design, Photoshop

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Jonathan wrote an article about reading easy it has many interesting points.

The original article is from Oliver Reichenstein and can be found in iA.

Jona ', just what led to my aid.

By the way, Oliver's article can be found, but explained to a lesser extent in the book by Jakob Nielsen, "Usability, design Web sites or on your site Useita.