{"id":387,"date":"2008-08-06T16:23:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T06:35:07","slug":"font-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/08\/font-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Font sizes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing some of my favourite blogs today, I came across a post by Donna-Marie about <a title=\"Choosing fonts\" href=\"http:\/\/smallbusinessdiva.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/29\/what-difference-does-a-font-make\/\" target=\"_blank\">choosing suitable fonts<\/a>. As well as being a good summary of which fonts work well in different media, it reminded me of someone recently asking about using different sized fonts &#8211; and recent experiences of unsuitable font choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I remember doing school assignments where I&#8217;d use different fancy fonts for each heading and changed the text to suit the amount of information in each section, and so on &#8211; and I was proud of being so versatile! But looking back (or at children&#8217;s work now) I can see that it looks childish and puts the focus on the fonts rather than the content. It isn&#8217;t very professional to give the impression you are trying to minimise the content!<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, it is better to stick to one font style and size in a single document. It is consistent which makes it easier to read (the eye doesn&#8217;t have to keep adjusting to different fonts) and it also looks clean and professional. And to be honest, it is also easier to prepare than swapping fonts all the time!<\/p>\n<p>The common exceptions in font sizes would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>heading and sub-headings are often a little larger than the text font<\/li>\n<li>labels on diagrams and tables are often smaller to work with the labelled items<\/li>\n<li>the &#8216;fine print&#8217; such as a disclaimer, a copyright notice or unsubscribe information &#8211; this text can be smaller but it must still be big enough to easily read so less than 8 point is getting too small in most cases. I recently edited a document which had footnotes to a table in a 7 font and it was too small to read and also looked out of place amongst the 11 font table and general text.<\/li>\n<li>fonts within an ad design may show more variation, but be careful to not overdo it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are tempted to change font sizes to break up a chunk of text, consider bullet points, italics, bold, more paragraph breaks and page layout as alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing some of my favourite blogs today, I came across a post by Donna-Marie about choosing suitable fonts. As well as being a good summary of which fonts work well in different media, it reminded me of someone recently asking about using different sized fonts &#8211; and recent experiences of unsuitable font choices. \u00a0I remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[310,683,684,89,686,685,687],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-consistency","tag-font","tag-fonts","tag-professional","tag-readibilty","tag-size","tag-suitable"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}