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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
The problem I have with larger type sizes on the smaller screen is that widow/orphan control leaves far more conspicuous gaps that can't be masked over so easily with adjusted spacing. This is one unfortunate side-effect of the 3:4 aspect ratio that irritates me. For a while I was using 10-11pt, but then switched to 8-8.5pt, then 9-9.5pt. I'm back to 9.5-10pt for body text with just under two LC alphabets per line.
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Yikes! Your eyes are way better than mine - I think even 10pt Minion is a bit dense. I'm looking forward to trying the iPad or some other reader with a larger screen, like iRex's 800 or Skiff (so far, I think Skiff would be just perfect for me, if they would ever get it out the door). The larger screen would mean 11pt or even 12pt would have a very nice 66-character average per line, which seems to be optimal for the paragraph composer InDesign uses. I can't even imagine trying to read a novel at 8pt! I certainly agree that 11pt and above on the 6 inch screen results in some uncomfortable word spacing at times, but it's mostly something I can live with. I have my body text paragraph style Justification tab set at 80%, 100%, 120% for word spacing and -1%, 0%, 0% for the character spacing. That -1% seems to work well to fix a lot of the lines where the word spacing would be pretty large otherwise. It seems to me that I really start noticing the limitations of 160dpi when I get below about 10.5pt.