| Designers Mumbai | | | | better. 12-pt Verdana is better than 8-pt Verdana. 3. |
| 5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website's Legibility | | | | Make the text contrast with its background. The |
| By Seo Sultan Websites that make their customers | | | | more contrast, the better. Black-on-white or |
| work to read them are not the best way to get | | | | white-on-black are examples of the highest contrast |
| business. Miniscule fonts, text in colors that make it | | | | you can get. Use colors if you like, but if you squint |
| hard to see against the background color, and lines | | | | at the page and your text basically vanishes, there's |
| that are piled on top of each other are problems, but | | | | not enough contrast. 4. Give the lines room to |
| they're easy to correct. Let's jump right in and look | | | | breathe. Don't stack lines on top of each other. Use |
| at five easy fixes: 1. Format your text using CSS. | | | | the line-spacing directive in CSS and give it some |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the way to go - | | | | space; I'll often set line-spacing to 140% of the |
| use one style sheet and control how text looks on | | | | height of a typical line. 5. Break text up into chunks. |
| your entire site. Make a change to the style sheet | | | | No matter how good a writer you are, people don't |
| and your whole site is updated. It makes life a lot | | | | want to read endless pages of text. Break it up by |
| simpler. 2. Make the font size big enough to read. | | | | using headlines that reflect the subject of the |
| Consider your target audience. Even if they are a | | | | paragraph(s) to follow so people can scan down to |
| group of teenage girls looking for new shoes, it's | | | | the parts that really interest them, or use bulleted |
| never a good idea to use tiny type. It doesn't have | | | | lists to change the pace of the writing and slow |
| to be enormous, but up to a point, larger type is | | | | down the scanning. |