victor - 8:44 pm on Jun 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

I have spent many years battling with graphic designers to get them to use readably large point sizes in printed material.

I now see much the same battle on websites.

To most graphic designers, text is a grey blur that makes up a visual element of the page -- and not the most important element at that. They want something that is beautifully balanced and lovely to look at. Readability hardly enters their universe.

As a client of a designer, I've just had to keep insisting: "bigger! bolder! brasher!" to hope to get anything above 8-point.