shut up and make your browser text size larger...

:) have a nice day!

because it's so cute

attorney's like it even smaller.
(now there's a bumper sticker)

ugh ! dat's messed up :wacko:

Because smaller test looks more resolute - like an image. Bigger text, especially on the screen looks ragged. See the title text on this page.

And usually because the text is supplementary to the image, so it is downplayed. Often bigger text in websites is created as an image in photoshop and smoothed and blurred, such as found on this page or here.

I am unapologetic about my small text usage.

pet hate: student projects where the students name is in enormous letters. i either already know the student's name, or i just don't care that much. it seems so primary school.

bonus points if the title of the project is also in huge letters
more bonus points if the font is conspicuously appalling
more bonus points for naff titles
supreme bonus points for misspellings at sizes of 100pt+

Just trying to ruin everyone's productivity a little bit.

humorously related

It's so we can get good use out of all our cool glasses.

{re]thinking post-gramaticism: an [un]creative [mis]use of punctuation(s)

(fetishized punctuation is even more annoying.)

intellectual humility, lack of self-confidence

i also am unapologetic about my use of small type. me likes the white space around it.

el jeffe-

Nice. I tried to read the article, but couldn't get past the fact that a "Conservative Political Forum" was quoting Orwell to provide the introduction to their argument...

here's a nugget from the article:

"WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, then, we can say that a concerted effort to communicate dignity, restraint, and nobility to children and their parents through the use of artful, disciplined fonts in the promotion of children’s products would at least make a dent in an otherwise unfettered popular culture of fashionable disobedience and willful slovenliness."

Pick-up your room or it's nothing but Franklin Gothic for you today!

architects make graphic presentations using images and text. the best of these presentations scale the text with care relative to the objects being depicted in the images. on a monitor or book page, this often means making the text small. on a large presentation on a wall, the text would get bigger but maintain the same proportions relative to the images.

BECAUSE WE ARE GRAPHICAL COMUNICATORS, not writers....the power of architects is the ability they have to show express n explain they're ideas thru graphical representation (not with a report-like text)...

bests

P.S. i think ppl can keep better an image of a presentation than a phrase or spoken concept

I agree that we communicate graphically, and understatement is a good thing. But too little is often too much & comes across as a cute way of saying 'Fock You' with fonts. And, if we're so good at communicating, we need to make our text, no matter how sparingly we use it. Otherwise, we're just being jerks to guys like me too cheap to go buy a pair of horned-rim glasses, dangit!

well mystery, seems you are equally at fault for not taking care of your eyes. go buy some glasses. i also am 38 so i understand you position, but man you can't complain about you not being able to read type if you can't buck up and buy some much needed glasses.

Yeah, I know. I just never can keep 'em on...been like that since I was 6. Using CAD for the last 17yrs hasn't helped either. But that's really beside the point. Funny thing is, I've got no problem reading the tattoos that all of those 'low-rider' wearing women have at the base of their backs.....but that, too, is beside the point! Oh, just go use your little letters, I quit!