The latest read is an old (2006! ancient!) article by Oliver Reichenstein making the case for always using web page body type set at 100% — that is adhering to the browser standard for average type size.

This tends to look a little yoooge to most of us — a little huge, is that an oxymoron or what? — but he makes a good point. Most of my web dev work tends to run at about 90% of standard type size, but I think they might be convincing me to try to go bigger. Especially as I get older, I noticed more and more how I just automatically bump up the type size on most sites I visit.

I cannot decide which my favorite quote is, this one:

Let your text breathe. Using white space is not a designer’s nerdy issue. It’s not about taste.

or this one:

If you can’t make your website look nice without text in images, I am afraid that you will have to start again from scratch.

Probably my only problem with that article is when I — by force of sheer habit — go to scale up the type on that page as I always do, it hangs up my computer for quite a while. It’s funny, it’s almost like they’re punishing me for trying, seeing as they put so much thought into the type size.

Up until now I had only seen word cloud plug-ins for blogs and the like, to show what was abuzz at any given moment. But there’s a site, wordle.net, which will generate a word cloud based on your text input, a URL or a del.i.cio.us user name. Try it out, it’s a lot of fun.

I create this word cloud by cutting and pasting a rather large collection of favorite quotes I had accumulated over the years. This word cloud is also hosted at wordle.