Font Size?

[sundaybrew]

Do you think most people would prefer a bigger font size?

I know when I hit a website I like to see bigger text,

Like for instance Quadzillas blog, The text is big and its easy to read?

Think that will grab visitors more?

[Dan Schulz]

Here's what I do.

I don't specify pixels. Instead, I set the font size on the BODY element to 85% of whatever the user has his or her font size set to (most not only refuse to change the defaults, but also have their monitor resolution set to 96 .dpi so it normally comes out to approximately 16px or so for PCs, 14px for Macs I believe, and Linux - well who uses that anyway? ), and then set the leading (line-height) to 1.4

I'll also declare the letter-spacing to be 1px as well just to force some degree of separation between the characters in a given font.

As for the fonts I use, I start with Lucida Console to ensure that no matter what font the user has, there will be enough room in my containers to prevent the text from breaking the layout. From there, I'll use EM for my container widths.

I have some (albeit old) examples here:
http://www.dan-schulz.com/temp/2columnlayout/
http://www.dan-schulz.com/temp/3columnlayout/
http://www.dan-schulz.com/temp/css-form-example/

[sundaybrew]

Dan,

Thanks man, I really mean that , Thanks !

You always give awesome answers

On to my css sheet as we speak !!

I do have a question as I am still learning css

Here is what I have now

body {
    font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
    font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
    background: #FFFFFF url('')repeat-y;
    color: #333;
    text-align: center;
    }






#content {
    font-size: 1.3em
    }

.widecolumn .entry p {
    font-size: 1.05em;
    }

.narrowcolumn .entry, .widecolumn .entry {
    line-height: 1.4em;
    }

.widecolumn {
    line-height: 1.6em;
    } 

So I should make all the 1. whatevers to 1.0 and then make the 62.5 to the 80 you suggested right?

[leftybogs]

since i know how to use CTRL scroll down and up.. font is not an issue.... lol...
well.. nice post Dan...

[Dan Schulz]

Which Web site is it, sundaybrew?

[sundaybrew]

http://www.plumbingskool.com

Thats the site , but since I made this post I have adjusted stuff

[netx]

I love the following fonts: Calibri (body) and Trebuchet MS - I found it very easy to read even ebooks with these fonts. The size it's up for everyone, there might be people who need to read text on 3 or 4, I like plain text on 2.

[andr81]

Do you think most people would prefer a bigger font size?

I know when I hit a website I like to see bigger text,

Like for instance Quadzillas blog, The text is big and its easy to read?

Think that will grab visitors more?

I think font size is very important but font choosing is important too. Font may be big but not readable.

[ainita]

By offering something for advertisement is not a good idea to grab user IMO

[Boston SEO]

I never think you want the text too big or too small, but I would always air on the site of caution and go with the bigger text/font size.