Please let me know what you think

On 2006-07-26, Ben Measures wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:19:35 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

Besides, there is a far greater difference in X-height between
Times and Helvetica than between Helvetica and Verdana:
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/test.shtml

There is something wrong with the rendering of Times on your system. It's
certainly not the same font-size as the others (check if the 'W's are the
same height).

You could be right; I was surprised at the difference, but it
supported my thesis so I didn't follow it up.

A better resource is "Tools: Aspect values, x-widths for fonts"
http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/cat/devtools/43/>. It gives the
aspect values of Times, Helvetica and Verdana as 0.45, 0.52 and 0.55
(respectively).

Those figures support what I said: Verdana is much closer to
Helvetica than Helvetica is to Times.

[1] "Because over 95% of the letters we read are lowercase, larger
letter proportions usually result in a more legible typeface."

But, the larger the X-height, the more leading (line-height in CSS)
is required for legibility.

- Excerpt from It's About Legibility
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Arti...Legibility.htm

[2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.h...lue-def-length

HAND,

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