If a person doesn’t finish reading your post (because she got tired of the small font for example) she will probably move on to another site and never return. While if she finishes the post she might a) click on an ad, b) subscribe to your feed, c) share your post on social sites and so on.

I like 13 a lot, but it depends on the overall design. You can test by increasing whatever you are using by 1 too, and see how it looks.

Another important thing to check is the contrast of type against background. Luckily, the old trend of gray-on-gray has mostly died out, but many blogs can also benefit from making their type/background contract more readable.

By the way, my personal experience is that I tend to read more on sites that have readable and relatively larger fonts and site design.

For the background I would prefer to have white … and font colour will be always black.

Still, I’ll keep it at 14 for now and see if that improves.

One related thing to consider is the font face itself. I use Verdana, as do others but I’m wondering if there is a more readable typeface out there.

Along with font sizes, allowing the browser zoom feature to operate is another thing (i.e. relative size values than fixed)

Yeah we should include these kind of things in our check list.

KILLER TITLE ….

If you get tweet from Daniel mentioning these kind of title than I am sure you would love to check it.

Daniel I think you should increase font size more bit.

I use 14 most of the time broken up by headings of 16-28. I regularly get positive comments about the layout of my sites, so people seem to like it.

Brent

You can also make a post an easy read by using headlines, graphics and paragraph breaks.

Cheers,
Jane.

BIG MISTAKE that would have been.

Thanks Daniel

I also find that giving some margins between design elements of the page makes it more comfort to read!