Bentler - 1:51 pm on Aug 21, 2001 (gmt 0)

Eric J, I think the referenced study needed to refer to absolute sizes (in a Windows environment) to make sense.

Tullis, T.S., Boynton, J.L. and Hersh, H. (1995), Readability of fonts in the windows environment, Proceedings of CHI'95, 127-128.

I don't think they used points because they were thinking traditional print design-- it's just that they wouldn't be able to do a readability study without controlling size as a repeatable constant.

The problem I have with this section is that the size examples are dependent on display resolution, so they're really not useful.