Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Fonts

Moodle gives you many options for design, and you may notice that web-editing boxes pop up almost every time you add content. While it's very tempting to use a wide array of colors, fonts, and symbols, be sure to keep it simple. The following are a few key points:

• Choose fonts carefully and use them consistently.
• Use a sans serif font, such as Arial or Helvetica. They are easier for people with impaired vision to read. They will be displayed uniformly in most browsers.
• If you are using graphics with text, be aware that magnification software often results in highly pixelated text and can be hard to read.
• If you code in HTML, use relative sizes rather than absolute sizes for the font. If you use absolute sizes, you essentially lock ...