[Webcom] Drupal CSS Text Size Change?

[Wolf Bergenheim]

On 12.05.2008 18:07, Dave Patton wrote:
> Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
>> Okay,
>>
>> I've now set the base to be 8pt sans-serif font.
> 
> It's my understanding that 'best practice' is
> to not set font sizes using 'points' or 'pixels',
> but to use 'em', because that is a relative
> unit of measure. In other words, 1.0em is the
> size of the default font size on my computer,
> therefore 0.7em is 70% of "my full size font".
> Setting something to 8pt may make it 'unreadable'
> for someone whose default font size is 16pt.
> 

Yeah, and I did set it at first to 1.0em, at which point Frank 
complained about huge fonts. I guess his default font size is something 
like 14. So now I set it to 0.8em which looks a bit small on my screen, 
but still readable.

--Wolf

-- 

<:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:>