I know that am not in the good section, but why can’t I see the list of topics in the Critique section?

Thanks for your responsiveness on this!

Polling of users is an excellent idea. Samples of three or four different sizes and leadings would help you get a more informed response. If the current size is 9 pt., 10 or 11 would be an improvement.

Just testing with HTML e-mail, the Georgia at 10 pt with 1 1/2 line leading doesn’t look bad. 11 pt is even better in size to me, but 1 1/2 lines is too loose at this size. I don’t know how much flexibility you have in leading with HTML

Again, a measure of not over 75 characters per line is definitely better. The measure and leading and contrast are probably more important than type size, but 9 point for extended text is just a strain for my old eyes.

I agree with Stephen Coles that the background should be lightened to increase contrast with the type.

I am looking at an LCD screen with a resolution of 96 dpi.

If these results hold, I guess it means the point size needs to go up by 1. Which actually makes sense on my end, since my display right now is pretty low-dpi.

hhp

There wasn’t an option for this…

I would say that talking about points is irrelevant for web text, being an absolute measurement. I know there’s a pretty consistent cross-platform relationship between points and pixels these days but that still doesn’t take screen size/resolution into account. Using relative ‘em’ or ‘%’ measures would allow users to adjust text sizes in the browser.

Every thing looks nice.
I think the columns in the text should be left aligned & more space between the 3 columns Topics, Post & Last Post.
Am I right?
Pls correct me if I am not

Regards

It’s not that hard to put preferences for this into a person’s cookie. Considering the number of people here on high-res monitors and macs (which have more antialiasing than PCs) this seems an ideal solution.

Beating the dead horse (don’t call PETA), but I’m for a shorter measure as well…

You mean PETC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Carrion.

BTW, if the point size goes up, the line measure might actually work well as is.

One other thing though: the site is slightly too wide, triggering an ungainly horizontal scroll bar on displays of 1024 wide, with no real benefit. I’d either target 1280 outright (not recommended) or make it like 5% narrower.

hhp

Funny thing, when I’m using my laptop or 23” LCD screen at work (it’s a luxury, I know) the type size is fine. When I’m at home on a 21” CRT it’s painful and I manually resize the text in Safari (press Command and Equal to enlarge) a couple times.