BOLD FONTs and LARGER FONTS for headlines.
(create a visual hierarchy)

Italic fonts should be avoided. They are too hard to read on screen! Especially when they are small!

San Serif fonts are more legible on screen than serif fonts.

If you do not put your text in a table or division, you cannot control line length. You would never want a line this long on a print page would you? And trying to read a line this long on a monitor screen is even harder. It's hard enough to read on screen as it is! Make choices that HELP your audience read the text. If we take this same text and put it in a table, it makes it much more READABLE! See:

If you do not put your text in a table or division, you cannot control line length. You would never want a line this long on a print page would you? And trying to read a line this long on a monitor screen is even harder. It's hard enough to read on screen as it is! Make choices that HELP your audience read the text. If we take this same text and put it in a table, it makes it much more READABLE! (Told you so.)


You would never place text this close to the edge in a print piece. Don't do it on the web either! Add cell padding!

this is much better- see:

Now the text has room to "breathe" and your audience is more likely to read your content!

This is a relative font size. That means it's RELATIVE to the viewers font size. It's like saying "make this font smaller than the viewer's browser setting." (or larger)


This is an absolute font size. I've set the font to 14 pixels. Make sure not to set your font to odd sizes-- like 19. The browser will "fake" them and they will may look blurry.
And finally , use CSS to control your type!!!!!!! Refer to the CSS handout if you don't remember how to do this.
ONE MORE THING- if you look at the source code for this paragraph, you will notice that a <br> tag is in front of "ONE MORE THING". That is a "soft return (shift-return) and will insert a single line break rather than a paragraph break.
Oh-and really --- one LAST thing. Isn't this an ugly, hard-to-read page? Remember to break your page into smaller amounts of information. Use visual divisions, break the text up into into different pages, Help you audience READ YOUR CONTENT!