What font size do you prefer?

[JeffB]

I'd say 10 is a good compromise for my aging eyes and also being able to cram as much as possible into X amount of pages.

FWIW- I find the new 4E core books plenty easy on the eyes. The C&C PHB and 3.X PHBs, not so much.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I accidentally clicked Other. My actual answer is 9 pt.

 

[Whitemouse]

10 point. It is a good choice in between 11 [just a little too big] and 9 [too small, strained eyes].

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Well, for 4th ed, what I'd like to see is keeping large fonts for combat info, but fluff/descriptive should be smaller.

Large = easy to check for quick glance round the table.
But I want my money's worth! Lot of descrptive info.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Voted 8, but I am OK with it going up to 10.

 

[JediSoth]

10 pt. is fine for most print fonts, though like others have mentioned it depends greatly on the style of each particular font. I use some that are very hard on the eyes even at 12 pt. and are practically unreadable to any without Eagle Eyes at 9 pt. and smaller.

I tend to not like reading anything at 8 pt. or smaller, and I don't consider myself to be that old (I'm 34) or have horrible vision (it's 20/20 corrected and I'm near sighted, so I don't need correction to be able to read books).

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

It would seem that I am in minority, but even if I have good eyes and can read small font without too much difficulty, I'd prefer 11pt.

AR

 

[ruemere]

Depends on font face. Wider fonts remain legible at lower sizes. Also, column width matters.

Preferred font size is 10.5 for Gentium Book:
Gentium — a typeface for the nations

Regards,
Ruemere

 

[Keefe the Thief]

I voted "other", because font size is important, but not in a vacuum. You can have a 9 pt font - if size, kerning and general layout work seamlessly together - be perfectly readable. In general, the D&D-books of the 3e era had not enough white space, too small fonts and not enough variation on their pages. I´m just rereading Red Hand of Doom and it is a perfect example for this. Thank god for 4th edition.

 

[RFisher]

I could have voted 10pt., but I think line length is much more important. Ten words per line.