Related resources and articles

• Toward a standard font size interval system by Todd Fahrner. (under construction)
  http://style.cleverchimp.com/ font_size_intervals/ altintervals.html
• A JavaScript Fix For Text That's Too Tiny by Matt Round. (Jun 2002)
  http://www.thenoodleincident.com/ tutorials/ box_lesson/ font/ matt_round.html
• Jeffrey Zeldman comments on font sizing issues in The Daily Report. (May 2002)
  http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0502c.html#purtypink
• Owen Briggs's sets of Text Sizing screenshots. (May 2002)
  http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/ box_lesson/ font/
• Making font size keywords work on by Todd Fahrner. (May 2001)
  http://www.alistapart.com/stories/sizematters/
• Todd Fahrner includes a page of sample text in various sizes in Beyond the FONT tag: Practical HTML text styling. (Dec 2000)
  http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/livetext.html
• Wendy Chisholm (of WAI, W3C) found that where you specify the font size definition affects the resizablility of text when testing on IE 5 and NS 4.7. (Nov 2000)
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/tests/font-sizes.html
• Jeffrey Zeldman's often referenced article Fear of Style Sheets 4: Give me pixels or give me death on A List Apart. (2000)
  http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/
• Joe Gillespie writes a very clear explanation on why things look bigger on to PCs in his wpdfd articles about resolution - "a 'logical inch' on a PC monitor is an inch and a third and the quoted 96 PPI is based on a bigger inch, not smaller pixels. [...] 12 Point type on a Mac is about 12 pixels high, but 12 point type on a PC is a third bigger - nearly 16 pixels high" (Aug 1999) - and typography "the outcome of this is that type specified as 7 or 8 point on a PC can be fully formed whereas the smallest Mac font will be called 9 point."
  http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0899.htm#comment
  http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo.htm
• The recommendation by the WAI is to use relative sizes such as em. (May 1999)
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#tech-relative-units
• Matt Slaybaugh made a case against pixels CSS -- Relative Sizes of Text. (Nov 1998)
  http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/ 0,4413,2140835,00.html (@ web.archive.org)
• Todd Fahrner's complaint against the use of points because 7pt is illegible on a Mac. (Nov 1997)
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/ 1997Nov/ 0078.html
  http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/points/ font_wars.GIF