Re: Font Type/Size for online help?

["Katie Kearns" <katie -dot- kearns -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 3/3/06, Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>
> The easiest way to control fonts (both families and sizes) is to apply
> your defaults to the body tag in the CSS, and then override it as
> necessary. (In my case, I override it for my heading styles and my
> footers. I do NOT set the font size on every element...too much work
> to change it, and sometimes the browsers get the math wrong.)
>
> I always use 80% as the base font size, which can be resize in all
> browsers.


That also helps get you around a quirky little bug in IE, I think, when
working with ems, where the font just spontaneously jumps down to
microscopic for no apparent reason. Ems also give you a lot more control
than "smaller" and "larger".


Oh, and I always use Arial. I used to use Verdana when it first came
> out, but the characters are too wide for me.


Yay! Char and I agree!

-Katie
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