Re: OT (Re: Another reason to not use micro-size fonts)

On 2008-08-05, Harlan Messinger wrote:
Adrienne Boswell wrote:
My neighbor was standing behind me today looking at a mock-up of a site I
am working on, and he said that he liked the fact that the text was large
(100%), because he could see it. He brought up the idea that someone could
be looking at a site and say "Hey, honey, take a look at this" - over their
shoulder. He said, "It's hard enough seeing stuff, don't make me work for
it."

I got another example. Restaurants I go to these days LOVE to use teeny
print on their menus, even as they dim the lights more and more. I was
in a place the other night that's so used to the problem that they had a
supply of light-up magnifiers on hand when I told them I couldn't read
the descriptions. I went to the same place yesterday and sat outside
where the light was fine, and still the font was so small that I
realized just in time that the sushi platter I had thought was bargain
didn't include 20 pieces, but 10. Depending on how I held the menu, the
character could have been a 2 or a 1. The same was true for prices on
the page.

A few months ago there was a poster from a branch of the
provincial government exhorting restaurants not to use small
print on their menus.

There was a URL to the branch's web site on that poster. Guess
what? That web site used minuscule type.

Any graphic designer should have been able to figure out the problem and
avoid it.

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