In any Web page, the text is the fundamental component which you will see occupying the broadest portion
of space on screen for any website.
This slide title is 12 points or 16 pixels.
This is because back to the Origin, when the website started taking ground, the standard font style
exploded to create any Web page used to have the size set to 12 points over time.
Then there was an agreement that implies the average size to be set on 16 pixels.
Indeed, in most websites you can come across a text with such a size.
You might have noticed that initially I said points and afterwards I said pixels.
In fact, when the first Web sites were born, the measure unit used for the dimensions of the text
was the typographical point and not big.
So the switch from one system to the other took place with the oncoming of the digital screens, which
have representations set in pixels to obtain a better user experience.
It's useful to remember that size matters in the case of texts because usually, as most text displays
and a pixel characters, one tends to consider this to be the third dimension.
However, we shouldn't forget that over the course of time the market is going to offer screens with
higher and higher resolutions.
Surely we have step from the classical BGA eight hundred per 600 resolution up to over a one thousand
nine hundred twenty per one thousand eighty, which is the most mainstream at the moment.
The higher the resolution and the smaller the pixel of the video phone, it's going to be, so a 16
pixel fund can be in this moment used for any type of task.
But if you want to upgrade the user experience, that is if you want to keep as the target any type
of person who might have a wider or smaller screen, it's advisable to use fonts which are around 18,
20 pixels, at least for the main text.
Obviously, when we talk about the bold text for the headers subtitles or even for simple text boxes
dealing with related subjects to the main subject, in that case, we can have fun trying to find a
more suitable solution to represent on screen, be it of a personal computer or of a mobile device.
During the course, when we start dealing with the C, SS and the responsive design, you will realize
that there is the opportunity to adapt the text dimension to a computer, to a tablet or to a mobile
phone.
In all the cases, despite there is a clear cut division among the three devices, we will have the
opportunity to customize the text they mentioned singularly.
If we used a personal computer, it's obvious that the text should appear evident.
Without having to zoom out, for example, which is a mainstream habit when using mobile devices.
We have to remember, though, that not all the users are familiar with the functions, which, for
example, a smartphone offers, and so as a general rule, we can say that we have to assess the text
dimensions with in mind the user who may find awkward reading the content from any device using a slightly
bigger text rather than a text that may cause reading problems, even if a single person will be surely
a better idea.