Yesterday, I read something from Information Architects, and it made me challenge my own desires. For the most part, I like my fonts small and my whitespace filled with buttons and dohickeys. 7px body type is just too big when you're trying to get in 18,000 blog banners. To be honest, the big fonts just don't appeal to me. However, readability is, and after I switched to Helvetica Neue, I knew I'd have to do something. Helvetica Neue is thinner and taller than Verdana, so the same font size wouldn't be the same. While (12px) would look large enough for most people using Verdana, Helvetica Neue will appear thinner and smaller. To keep it legible, I'd have to crank up the size. When I first put in K2, I didn't like the larger font sizes, to I retooled it to my own, small version. Unfortunately, my personal preference doesn't help people who are vision impaired, or just don't like to sit 2 inches in front of the screen. To remedy that, I bumped up the font: 62.5%* size from 1.1em to 1.3em. Not drastic, but it helps. Here's detail views at how it's changed:

Before, with the tiny letters.   After, with the bigger letters, more whitespace

I'm still tweaking things, trying to get the posts to their supposedly necessary 10-15 words per line, while trying to keep me from going crazy with the Web 2.0 giganto-fonts. *font: 62.5% resets your font size so that 1em is the same as 10px. This makes it easier for web designers to figure out how tall the fonts will appear on different browsers, and to make it so that 1.1em is just 11 pixels, just like in a word processing program.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-11-17T21:09:09.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
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