Sorry I've been on the list a bit but I have to reply to this. Ultimately font size is determined by the reader (viewer), go to the Explorer Menu> View >Font size and select your font size preference. I forget what it is in Netscape, it's in Preferences ?. I leave my font sizes small when building as it is my University's preference for a standard web page. The size to the viewer is not an issue - the VIEWER can pick to go larger. Grandparents who know this leave their Explorer View font size on larger or largest. So they view every web page in a large font. They won't even SEE the small fonts you are talking about unless someone changes their settings! ;-) Cheers, Denise --- Rosemary Agbonlahor <ro.agbonlahor@arcisng.net> wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone know why some websites use very small Arial type fonts? I asked a colleague and he said it was so as to get as much information as possible on a page. Have there been studies in this area?
Thanks a lot,
Rosemary
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