- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:12:26 +0100
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Bert Bos wrote: (snip (to be returned to later !) > I also think that changing the base font size (your example) is > something that designers should simply never do. The media queries don't > measure the distance of the user from his screen and thus cannot say > anything sensible about the optimal font size. But what about the standard typographic guidance, extended to the web screen, that a single line of text in a paragraph should not exceed approximately $nn$ characters (40 -- 70 for paper, 70 -- 100 for screen) ? Beyond this, the reader is likely to lose context on re-scanning to the start of the next line. This is the reasoning behind our "compute optimal font size" code. Philip TAYLOR
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