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Font Size, Line Height & Contrast


Bad Contrast Examples:

Example 2: (12pt Font, 13pt Line Height - Low Contrast)
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.


Bad Color Choices:

Contrast:


Tenet image from flickr

Matt Webb

Visual Appeal Without Pictures:


Danny Blackman

Enhance Your Message:


Inspiring

Readability:


For web designers, different browsers can also cause readability issues.

In Firefox the page displays with no problems, but in IE 6 gray boxes appear behind the text that makes it nearly impossible to read.

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page as it appears in Firefox

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In IE 6

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