← Back to Archive

Readability of Large Type

An interesting and though provoking perspective by Oliver Reichenstein on why larger type and lower content density is good for readability on the Web.

“Physically 16pt [on screen] is as big as 11pt in print. Huh? Yes, the screen is usually further away, which at such small distances, has a huge impact… 16pt only looks big because we’re used to small fonts and because the threshold (browser window) makes it look big.”

Wilson Miner on The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard

Comments are closed for this post.