On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Claude Needham wrote: > The "Helvetica Neue" is visually a smaller font at 13px than Arial is at 13px. > > Anyone without "Helvetica Neue" on their computer will see the pages > the same. For those of us with "Helvetica Neue" we see a smaller > looking font.
?? Arial has an aspect ratio of 0.524, Helvetica Neue has 0.523. That is a negligible difference. But at the exact same font-weight, Helvetica Neue has a slightly 'lighter' typographic color - Arial looks slightly more fat. And Helvetica Neue has a slightly looser kerning. And yeah, 13px is very close to my threshold for 'unreadable' http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/t-HvA.html > I would be so happy if there was a mechanism (other than javascript) > to change the font-size depending upon which font is selected. It > would be so nice to fudge the font-sizes to compensate for the fact > that different fonts have different visual sizes at the same numeric > font-size. Font-size-adjust is there for that purpose (Gecko 1.9.0 + and IE9preview). http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#relative-sizing-the-font-size-adjust-pro Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
