Oct 8, 2011
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16 Pixels for body copy. Anything less is a costly mistake. As usability expert Oliver Reichenstein says in “The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard”: [16 pixels] is not big. It’s the text size browsers display by default. It’s the text size browsers were intended to display… It looks big at first, but once you use it you quickly realize why all browser makers chose this as the default text size.

16 Pixels for body copy. Anything less is a costly mistake.

As usability expert Oliver Reichenstein says in “The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard”:

[16 pixels] is not big. It’s the text size browsers display by default. It’s the text size browsers were intended to display… It looks big at first, but once you use it you quickly realize why all browser makers chose this as the default text size.

  1. humanbeings reblogged this from decodering and added:
    As usability expert Oliver Reichenstein says in “The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard”: [16 pixels] is not big. It’s the text...
  2. pop-arcana reblogged this from decodering and added:
    - - - - Very interesting! I’ve found that waaaaayyy too many sites use much smaller text. I’m constantly zooming in or...
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