Daily web design tips

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Increase and decrease website fonts

Here is a little gem of a tip. You can increase or decrease the font size of website you are viewing. This will make text easier to red. Hold the "Ctrl" button down (bottom left of keyboard) and use the scroll wheel on your mouse. This will increase and decrease the font size of the website you are viewing!

Hey it doesn't work

If only some or none of the text resizes the web designer had used absolute font sizes, i.e. font size is 12pt rather then %. This is generally bad practice as visually impaired visitors won't be able to resize text.

Web design font tip

In light of the above fact use % size when setting your fonts on your website.

1 Comments:

  • How do I create a button on my blog that allows readers (who don't know this shortcut) to do this?

    By Blogger Bitter Old Punk, at 9:32 pm  

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