Re: Readability of international language scripts

Hi Steve,

Good question. From the Summary Conclusion however: "On overall preference,
more than 50% of the UK participants chose 18 point sans serif, whereas
more than 50% of Thai participants chose 18 point serif."

I recall back in the day when the W3C CSS WG established the base-line
font-size for browsers at 16 pt., and then designers promptly modified
their style sheets to: *body {font-size: 80%;} *(sigh)

JF

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:03 AM Steve Lee <stevelee@w3.org> wrote:

> Thanks John, that IS fascinating. I wonder if there as size at which
> readability starts to reduce? I understand that is the case with Western
>
> Steve
>
> On 07/01/2020 13:43, John Foliot wrote:
> > but last year at the Web4All conference in San Francisco, there was a
> > young woman who did a presentation along a similar vein. As I recall,
> > she was researching readability of both Western scripts and Thai (??)
> > script, and the somewhat astonishing conclusion she brought forward was
> > that font *SIZE* also had a real
>


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