Friday, August 26th, 2005, 4:32 am
Font Size Mistakes
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xcessively small fonts have become a problem that too few keep in the back of their minds. To a friend of mine who is 76-years-young, one of the greatest features in Firefox is that fonts are easily scalable. Having taken a look at the The Rogue Librarian, I think the administrator must have excellent eyesight. The small fonts will pose problem for the generation that still cares for books. With the buggy IE, I hard to tell if scaling/zooming would even have an effect.
Conversely, taking as an example A List Apart, which is a Web design authority, several forums criticised the recent re-design, although many loved it too. As Els correctly pointed out, “on a 1024×768 window, font size only one notch up already gets the ‘feed’ menu item off screen (no second row). People with bad eyesight can’t get to the feed, nor are allowed to contribute”.
