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RE: CSS Units of Measurement

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 19, 2004 2:53PM

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> I understand why one shouldn't go below 75% but why not above 150%?

Because it eats up space and creates a risk of confusing normal big text
with headings.

> For example, by default, <p> text is about the same size as <h4> and <h1> is
> about 2x (or 200%) of <p>.

Unfortunately browsers use by default very large h1 size. My point is that
if you say something about font size, you should go into a more reasonable
direction - and avoid the risk of having your big text taken as a main
heading.

> If I decide to make the range a little wider such
> as from 90% <p> to 250% for <h1> are you saying that I can't use 250%?

Oh, I was referring to the use of increased font size for normal text,
rather than for headings.

But even for headings, I think 250% is way overboard, and even 200% is
quite a lot. The default bolding of headings makes the text look even
bigger.

It's not a big issue, in accessibility or otherwise, but too big text
creates problems, both on small devices where you need small text and
cannot afford great increases, and on normal screens when used by people
who need big font for copy text. If someone needs, say, 20pt for copy
text, then a 50pt heading will waste space.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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