Technology for Trainers, 2nd Edition

8FONTS AND WHITE SPACE—HOW E-LEARNING USE IS DIFFERENT

E-LEARNING DESIGNERS OFTEN complain about the computer’s inability to mimic the effectiveness of fonts and text appearance of printed media. Not only do you and your design team have to deal with the usual browser and computer platform inconsistencies, but the low resolutions of even the best computer monitors can thwart your efforts to wrap text around an illustration or keep all the text on a single screen. CSS and authoring tools have helped, but what looks wonderful on your computer screen may still look tiny on a smartphone and be only barely more readable on a tablet. Advances in tablet and smartphone displays are making text look better on those smaller devices, but there is still ...