This post is part of our series, 50 Ways Your Website is Not
Helping You Sell More Books

23. Pixel font sizes

“Your text is too small for me to read, and you’ve sized it using pixels. I can’t resize it using Internet Explorer, the only browser I’m allowed to use at work.”

Prior to version 7, Internet Explorer was afflicted with a bug: it wouldn’t let visitors resize text specified in pixels. Unfortunately, a lot of people are still stuck using this outdated browser. The solution? Use any other unit of measurement to define your font sizes. We’re quite fond of ems.

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