I do the same thing, meara.
And Lyra, I know that a user-definable stylesheet is on the wish list. The reason the font here looks a little bigger is because we use Verdana, which is designed to be a slightly bigger font.
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
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Jon B. - Dec 19, 2002 1:31:45 pm PST #2145 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
billytea - Dec 19, 2002 1:35:06 pm PST #2146 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
And Lyra, I know that a user-definable stylesheet is on the wish list. The reason the font here looks a little bigger is because we use Verdana, which is designed to be a slightly bigger font.
How was Verdana chosen? Was it because it is a little larger, and thus presumably more readable?
Jesse - Dec 19, 2002 1:41:09 pm PST #2147 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
FYI, the site's been a little slow for me today, sometimes....New pages aren't loading as instantly as they usually do. Not all the time, but some.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 19, 2002 1:42:44 pm PST #2148 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
the site's been a little slow for me today, sometimes
I'm glad you've said that, Jesse, I was thinking it was my connection. So, me too.
DXMachina - Dec 19, 2002 1:44:05 pm PST #2149 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It's been like that for me for a couple of days now. I chalked it up to the increased traffic.
We did choose Verdana for readability, but I really dislike it.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 19, 2002 1:49:10 pm PST #2150 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
We did choose Verdana for readability, but I really dislike it.
So that's why it was chosen? Intresting. I like it, actually. There are so many fonts that aren't easy to read, but Verdana is smooth, and great for skimming. What do you dislike about it, DX? Surely there's no such thing as 'too readable'.
Jesse - Dec 19, 2002 1:49:17 pm PST #2151 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's been like that for me for a couple of days now. I chalked it up to the increased traffic.
That's my fear, and it worries me.
billytea - Dec 19, 2002 1:58:47 pm PST #2152 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So that's why it was chosen? Intresting. I like it, actually. There are so many fonts that aren't easy to read, but Verdana is smooth, and great for skimming.
Personally, I prefer a serif font. They're more readable for whole paragraphs. (San serifs do a little better on headers and such like, IIRC.) But I'm fine with Verdana, if it was decided there was a need for it.
(Of course, if it was just for me I'd probably put the whole thing into Papyrus. But I'm funny that way.)
John H - Dec 19, 2002 2:01:08 pm PST #2153 of 10000
Verdana is certainly a very well-designed font for online reading.
My feelings are that we shouldn't specify a font for body-text reading at all.
And that we shouldn't specify font sizes at all, except in relative terms, but I know that would cause havoc with the design.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 19, 2002 2:01:13 pm PST #2154 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'd probably put the whole thing into Papyrus.
Naturally. I might go for Times New Roman, which is familiar, but Verdana is fine.