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Hate of 2007: News sites using small text
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December 31st, 2007Uncategorized
What do Gmail, Google Mail, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Economist, Reuters, Fox News, Sky News, TypePad, Wordpress, Al Jazeera, the BBC, RTE, the Irish Times, the Washington Post, the Irish Independent, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, and the South China Morning Post have in common?
With a quick look, they all use the standard text size – the correct size – for web pages with news, other articles, blog posts, and other text heavy pages.
Examples sites which use smaller text includes the Sunday Business Post, ENN.ie, and siliconrepublic.com – the Sunday Tribune goes one further and uses a hardly readable size. (EDIT: To add to the list Village.ie wound be another site)
Some web designers may say smaller text looks good, you may even agree with them. So, you’re right and the listed names in the above first paragraph are wrong? Indeed.
Tags: Web/Tech
3 Responses to “Hate of 2007: News sites using small text”
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Sorry, I have no idea what your grievance could possibly be. I have visited some of the new sites you cite and the text size is fine with me. What’s your problem ?
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Cian
Sorry, my post could have been a bit clearer, the list in the first paragraph is of sites using the correct standard size text
I’ve made my wording a little clear and added a few examples of sites which use smaller text. -
yeah especially hate the tribune for that, im right with ya.
whats worse is the irish examiner with links that change after a few days when they’ve been put into archive.
there too long and indecipherable too, the good thing about indo.ie is that it has good links with the name of the story in them
