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Old 01-22-2014, 05:29 PM   #238
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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob View Post
And even though e-reading can alleviate a lot of that, publishers still try to get cute and shrink text. Three of my most recent books all had the same double-whammy, in which the body set a base font size of 90% and the paragraphs were set to "small" (instead of the normal "medium")...resulting in Teeny Tiny Text. Granted, I understand that on copyright pages, but that's not how normal pages should work!
I never understood that. Why not use 100% for normal text, 120% or so for chapters, and 90% or 80% for non-running text such as the copyright pages? (And even there, it's not necessary.)

Some years ago, it also was very "stylish" to have websites with tiny text. Think fonts at 8 or even 7pt. Try to read that, on a 22 inch 1920x1080 screen. (Not to mention Full HD notebook screens...)
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