Industry Standards for Line Spacing and Font Size

[Guest]

I would like to inquire as what the standard is for line spacing and font
size in websites. We are using single spacing and 12 pt for regular text -
14 pt for headings. But I am noticing a lot of websites seem to have much
small font size and it seems line spacing as well. Please advise. Thank you.

 

[John Brandt]

I would like to inquire as what the standard is for line spacing and font
size in websites. We are using single spacing and 12 pt for regular text -
14 pt for headings. But I am noticing a lot of websites seem to have much
small font size and it seems line spacing as well. Please advise. Thank you.

I'm sure others - more in the know - will also respond. But I for one
know of no "industry standard."

If you are looking to build a good website these days, it would be
best to stick with standards for HTML and CSS. The web world is
quickly changing to XML and XHTML which have some rather "strict"
requirements, but in so doing allow you content to be more easily
transferable to alternative user agents (things beyond browsers).

With proper CSS code you and make the fonts any size while still
allowing the user and the user agent to change these at will.

Some sites are now adding code that allows the visitor to increase
font size.

See example : http://www.tjkdesign.com/

jeb

 

[Murray]

There are no standards for such things, other than one that says to use
points for print, and pixels/percents/ems/ens/exs/size names for web.

 

[Tina Clarke]

I would like to inquire as what the standard is for line spacing and font
size in websites. We are using single spacing and 12 pt for regular text -
14 pt for headings. But I am noticing a lot of websites seem to have much
small font size and it seems line spacing as well. Please advise. Thank

you.

There are accessibility standards ... don't use pt's.

http://webdesign.about.com/cs/typemeasurements/a/aa042803a.htm

Tina

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[Windsun]

Well, first off - Points are not a valid web font size. Pt's are for print.