Sometimes a smaller font is a good way out of a tight spot. In this particular case, at least for the part of the problem shown, there is a better solution which is both clearer, and takes half the space, like so: I'm using a large enough font, 18pt Tahoma (open image in new tab to view full size), that the negative letter-space is OK.

Mar 15, 2021 · Since monospace font is more difficult to read (take a long piece of text, say twenty pages, and print it using a monospace font; then print the next ten pages using a serif font, and see by yourself), I agree with your choice of not using monospace font for the long chunks of text, such as the description on your screenshot.

The font should be free to use and in a format in which I could add it to an iPhone app which I'm developing. EDIT 1. To clarify, the sample image I have used has nothing to do with my app. It was just a way to illustrate what I mean. So, yes, the font is aliased and is ugly, but it's not what I'm using, so no need to try to improve that.

Jan 12, 2013 · There have been various studies to measure which font type has the highest readability onscreen such as "The Effects of Font Type and Size on the Legibility and Reading Time of Online Text by Older Adults" or "The impact of web page text-background colour combinations on readability, retention, aesthetics and behavioural intention" and sans ...

Dec 12, 2022 · One requirement here is that everything must be as compact as possible. The web applications have an extremely high content density. With the fonts, we have currently solved it in such a way that we have a base font size of 16 px from a viewport of 0–1280 px. If the viewport is larger than 1280px, the base font size is increased to 18px.

Feb 22, 2013 · The best font size is the default font size. Trust the browser which has chosen this value depending on the monitor DPI and their internal studies. font-size: medium; From :smashing magazine: Note that 1.5 is a value that is commonly recommended in classic typographic books, so our study backs up this rule of thumb.

Oct 2, 2013 · Knowing the audience and demographics: the classic example is the elderly people that require fonts that work well in larger sizes, so don't choose a font that is designed to be very compact and read in small viewports that don't resize up well.

Jul 2, 2015 · It's clear, compact and works great on any size, so it's pretty common choice for your kind of tasks Another good choice is Droid , a font made after the Android font built by Ascender. Take a look at both fonts with the characters you need (smaller size is 9 px)

Dec 22, 2016 · By default, the browser will display each font at 16px (CSS pixels). This is a good default for most cases, but may need to be adjusted for a specific font - i.e. the default size can be set lower or higher to accommodate for the different properties of the font. Then, once the default size is set, larger and smaller fonts should be defined ...

Jun 22, 2021 · We found the answer: Use a minimum value of 1.5 for line-height for main paragraph content. Headings aren't the main paragraph content, so line-height doesn't have to be 150% to be accessible.