Text Size and Spacing
What is text size and spacing
Text size is how big your textual content is. Text spacing is how close or far your lines of text are from each other. They can factor into the readability of the text.
How to use Text size and spacing
Text size and spacing can help everyone access your content more easily. A lot of programs and website templates have set the default text settings with content readability in mind. If you do change the font or the text size or spacing, most text editors have options to change the font size as well as paragraph spacing.
Impact to users
The readability of text will impact everyone viewing the content. Attention to text style, size, and spacing can improve readability on the web for everyone, including viewers with low vision and/or dyslexia.
For example, small squished text is difficult to read. Using a default or larger font size with 1 to 1.5 paragraph spacing improves the readability of content.
For more information check out the WAI Perspectives Customizable Text video.
Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes the African heat is too much. Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust.
An elephant’s trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things—especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.)
Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.
Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated, and some African elephant populations remain endangered.
An elephant’s trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things—especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.)
Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.
Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated, and some African elephant populations remain endangered.