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The following table shows how the current system renders different font sizes. Grouping of pixle and points to named sizes (small, medium, etc.) is somewhat arbitary and based on their appearance at 1024X768 using Mozilla 1.7.2 on Linux.

The appearance of fonts depends on screen resolution, browser brand and version, and to a lesser extent the operating system. Readability is affected by font family. Sans serif fonts are cleaner and easier to read on a screen than serifed fonts especially at smaller sizes and lower screen resolutions.

Background color and text color have a significant impact on readability not just the need for contrast; but, on a computer screen, bright backgrounds and/or font colors can be hard to read for an extended period.

Font:  Sans-serif serif Arial Arial Black Bitstream Charter Book Antiqua Bookman Bkman Old Century Schoolbook Charter Chicago Comic Sans MS Courier Courier New Futura Garamond Geneva Gentium Georgia Gill Sans Helvetica Impact Lucida Lucida Console Lucida T Writer N.CentSchoolbk Palatino StoneSans Swiss Tahoma Times Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Univers Verdana Style:  normal italic oblique Weight:  normal bold 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Bgcolor:  white black green silver lime gray olive yellow maroon navy red blue purple teal fuschia aqua Text:  black white green silver lime gray olive yellow maroon navy red blue purple teal fuschia aqua

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pixles	Points	Named
This is 8 pixles	This is 6 Points	This is xx-small
This is 9 pixles	This is 7 Points
This is 10 pixles	This is 8 Points	This is x-small
This is 11 pixles	This is 9 Points
This is 12 pixles	This is 10 Points	This is small
This is 13 pixles	This is 11 Points
This is 14 pixles	This is 12 Points	This is medium
This is 15 pixles	This is 13 Points
This is 16 pixles	This is 14 Points
This is 17 pixles	This is 15 Points	This is large
This is 18 pixles	This is 16 Points
This is 19 pixles	This is 17 Points
This is 20 pixles	This is 18 Points
This is 21 pixles	This is 19 Points
This is 22 pixles	This is 20 Points
This is 23 pixles	This is 21 Points
This is 24 pixles	This is 22 Points	This is x-large
This is 25 pixles	This is 23 Pts
This is 26 pixles	This is 24 Pts
This is 27 pixles	This is 25 Pts
This is 28 pixles	This is 26 Pts
This is 29 pixles	This is 27 Pts
This is 30 pixles	This is 28 Pts	This is xx-large
This is 31 px	This is 29 Pts
This is 32 px	This is 30 Pts
This is 33 px	This is 31 Pts
This is 34 px	This is 32 Pts
This is 35 px	This is 33 Pts