Use of Small Type Fonts
The use of very small and virtually unreadable text smaller than Font size #2 is normally reserved for legal notices and copyright information
The font size generally used on your website should be much larger and anything from 6 points to 10 is normal and customary. For example if you view the following
Point 6
The font size generally used on your website should be much larger and
anything from 6 points to 10 is normal and customary. For example if
you view the following
Point 7
The font size generally used on your website should be much larger and anything
from 6 points to 10 is normal and customary. For example if you view the following
Point 8
The font size generally used on your website should be much larger and anything
from 6 points to 10 is normal and customary. For example if you view the following
What can you read easily?
What is also important is the type style used. There are basically 2 types of fonts - Serif and Sans Serif - A typical Serif face is – Times New Roman - A typical Sans Serif face is – Arial
A serif face is an older style font which contains a tiny tail on the character edge - T whereas a T sans serif face like Arial does not have this tail.
Dictionary Definition
French typographie, from Medieval Latin typographia: Greek tupos, impression +
Latin -graphia, -graphy.]
Here is not the place to discuss the complexities of Typography as this is a very big subject that we could discuss on a website all of its own needless to say that the choice of type face and font style is very important to your overall web design and the impression you are trying to create. I have been fortunate with my graphic design training of 3 years which contained one day a week specifically dedicated to the design, understanding, the use of and history of typography for commercial advertising in modern day publications and media from the first scribbles in primitive cave paintings to illustrative and modern type styles.
You only have to see how many font styles there are from your Word Font option drop down to get an idea of just some of the font styles available. However it is customary to restrict the use of acceptable font styles for websites to a handful of styles. The most important aspect is to make sure you keep consistency throughout your website and don't change font style very much if at all. You can show envisage by larger font size and bolding up text that you want to pick out of the body of text which is also picked up by search Engines Bots who look at bold text as requiring more relevance and importance.
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