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Subject:Re: MINIMUM FONT SIZE FOR READABILITY From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:45:09 -0500
Also following up on the recent post about usability of candidate websites:
The conventional wisdom is that older readers need larger fonts. I compared
the "About the Candidate" pages of three current US Presidential candidates.
Bush and Kerry seemed to have the largest fonts, and Dean has the smallest.
The Bush site seemed to be the same size as Kerry's, which was spec'ed at
12px, although Kerry added additional line spacing, which made it look a
little more readable to me. They all seemed very readable to me.
