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Baekdal.com

I’ve been very impressed with Baekdal.com and I suggest you visit the site. I don’t care for the design, but the content is wonderful. For example:

Minimum font sizes

Habits and Expectations can Render Usability Tests Invalid

Usable Breadcrumbs with Guidelines

…are three recent postings. Check the site out and let Thomas Baekdal know that I sent you!

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One Response to “Baekdal.com”

  1. driptray Says:
    May 20th, 2004 at 7:19 pm

    They say:

    Make you body font-size 70% (the exact same as 11px Lucida/Tahoma), then you can use em’s to size everything else - 1em is then the minimum size you can use. It is a quick and easy way to ensure that you never make your font-sizes too small to read.

    In other words, make your text 70% of the size that users have set as their preferred default. Great advice if you want to piss your users off.

    Here’s some better advice if you respect your users: make your body font-size 100% (or 1 em), and then use ems to size headings etc. from that.

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