Legibility Examples: Font Size

Shown below are some examples of body text that is too small contrasted with an example of text at an acceptable size. Platform and browser differences can confuse this - on PCs for example, the text will often display slightly larger than on a Mac. However, more useage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has alleviated this in recent years.

Even so, at Morgan Wylie we take care to view all the web sites we design and build on both these major platforms and all the commonly used browsers, to ensure a minimum of discrepancy.

9px text is too small to read comfortably:

Lascivius saburre fermentet optimus pretosius quadrupei, quamquam Caesar amputat rures, semper plane parsimonia cathedras lucide miscere pessimus fragilis rures, utcunque pretosius syrtes iocari bellus agricolae, ut pretosius cathedras neglegenter conubium santet plane perspicax fiducia suis. Matrimonii senesceret syrtes, et saburre incredibiliter lucide deciperet tremulus umbraculi.

11px text is better:

Lascivius saburre fermentet optimus pretosius quadrupei, quamquam Caesar amputat rures, semper plane parsimonia cathedras lucide miscere pessimus fragilis rures, utcunque pretosius syrtes iocari bellus agricolae, ut pretosius cathedras neglegenter conubium santet plane perspicax fiducia suis. Matrimonii senesceret syrtes, et saburre incredibiliter lucide deciperet tremulus umbraculi.

12px text is easy to read:

Lascivius saburre fermentet optimus pretosius quadrupei, quamquam Caesar amputat rures, semper plane parsimonia cathedras lucide miscere pessimus fragilis rures, utcunque pretosius syrtes iocari bellus agricolae, ut pretosius cathedras neglegenter conubium santet plane perspicax fiducia suis. Matrimonii senesceret syrtes, et saburre incredibiliter lucide deciperet tremulus umbraculi.