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In any Web page, the text is the fundamental component which you will see occupying the broadest portion

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of space on screen for any website.

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This slide title is 12 points or 16 pixels.

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This is because back to the Origin, when the website started taking ground, the standard font style

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exploded to create any Web page used to have the size set to 12 points over time.

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Then there was an agreement that implies the average size to be set on 16 pixels.

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Indeed, in most websites you can come across a text with such a size.

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You might have noticed that initially I said points and afterwards I said pixels.

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In fact, when the first Web sites were born, the measure unit used for the dimensions of the text

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was the typographical point and not big.

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So the switch from one system to the other took place with the oncoming of the digital screens, which

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have representations set in pixels to obtain a better user experience.

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It's useful to remember that size matters in the case of texts because usually, as most text displays

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and a pixel characters, one tends to consider this to be the third dimension.

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However, we shouldn't forget that over the course of time the market is going to offer screens with

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higher and higher resolutions.

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Surely we have step from the classical BGA eight hundred per 600 resolution up to over a one thousand

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nine hundred twenty per one thousand eighty, which is the most mainstream at the moment.

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The higher the resolution and the smaller the pixel of the video phone, it's going to be, so a 16

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pixel fund can be in this moment used for any type of task.

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But if you want to upgrade the user experience, that is if you want to keep as the target any type

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of person who might have a wider or smaller screen, it's advisable to use fonts which are around 18,

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20 pixels, at least for the main text.

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Obviously, when we talk about the bold text for the headers subtitles or even for simple text boxes

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dealing with related subjects to the main subject, in that case, we can have fun trying to find a

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more suitable solution to represent on screen, be it of a personal computer or of a mobile device.

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During the course, when we start dealing with the C, SS and the responsive design, you will realize

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that there is the opportunity to adapt the text dimension to a computer, to a tablet or to a mobile

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phone.

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In all the cases, despite there is a clear cut division among the three devices, we will have the

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opportunity to customize the text they mentioned singularly.

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If we used a personal computer, it's obvious that the text should appear evident.

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Without having to zoom out, for example, which is a mainstream habit when using mobile devices.

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We have to remember, though, that not all the users are familiar with the functions, which, for

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example, a smartphone offers, and so as a general rule, we can say that we have to assess the text

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dimensions with in mind the user who may find awkward reading the content from any device using a slightly

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bigger text rather than a text that may cause reading problems, even if a single person will be surely

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a better idea.