Small font sizes
Both the choose a font and the color are very important for a good design.
By Susana deOliveira
What happens when you have to design a card, with small dimensions (300px width) and maintain a 3:5 ratio? I'd been learning for a month, and that was my first project. We were shown a number of font families, such as Roboto (sans-serif), among others. When I finished it, I was excited because I'd managed to create a card with interesting information. You can see the result in the card on the left. ()
The second card is the one I would use to explain to the student that a simple change in background color and a different font, like Verdana (sans-serif) font because is easily readable even for small font sizes, can make a difference. However, it was an excellent project for a beginner, as it clearly shows their understanding of spatial distribution.
And the third card is the one I would have opted for now and I choosed "Helvetica Neue" (sans-serif) font, because it has a more unified structure of heights and widths and improved readability. These kinds of projects are great and remind me that when I buy a packaged product and try to read the ingredients, I often can't and have to ask someone to read it to me. Small font sizes are difficult to handle, so to be legible, the text has to be as explicit as possible.
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Amur tigers
- Habitat: Asia
- Healthy habits: The tigers like water.
- Diet: Varied
- Vision:Binocular
The tigers are a good swimmer and enjoy with a good water bath. They are the largest of the cats and like them, they have a certain vision of color. Its pelage is orange crossed by stripes of shades ranging from dark brown to black. The shape and quantity of the stripes vary according to sex. And maybe, the stripes, practically verticals, were the inspiration for creating barcodes.
Amur tigers
- Habitat: Asia
- Healthy habits: They like water.
- Diet: Varied
- Vision: Binocular
The tigers are a good swimmer and enjoy with a good water bath. They are the largest of the cats and like them, they have a certain vision of color. Its pelage is orange crossed by stripes of shades ranging from dark brown to black. The shape and quantity of the stripes vary according to sex. And maybe, the stripes, practically verticals, were the inspiration for creating barcodes.
Amur tiger
The Tungusic peoples, native to Siberia, Mongolia and China, considered the tiger a near-deity and often referred to it as "Grandfather" or "Old man".
The Manchu, the people from whom Manchuria derives its name, considered the tiger as Hu Lin, the king, because the tiger has a mark on its foreheads that looks like a Chinese character for "King".
[You can see the origin of the photograph through the following link Wikimedia Commons]
Attention: Maybe, you see differences in the sizes of the postcards, this is because Verdana font was designed to be highly legible on low-resolution screens, resulting in a larger on-screen appearance than other fonts, even at the same point size.