Look and feel · Typography
Your text is hard to read
Small, pale or cramped text tires people out. They skim, miss details or leave.
- Applies to
- every page
- Typical severity
- medium
- Effect on conversions
- medium
- Effort to fix
- Quick to fix
What to look for
Body text that looks small for the screen, very light grey, set in long lines (roughly 90+ characters across), or with tight line spacing.
What good looks like
Body text is a comfortable size and colour with lines of roughly 50 to 80 characters.
How to fix it
Make your text bigger and darker, keep lines shorter, and add a little more space between lines.
Based on
- Writing-for-the-web research
- WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.12 Text Spacing
Related checks
Look and feelText styles change all over your pageWhen headings and text keep changing size and style, it's harder to see what matters and your business looks less polished.Look and feelYour text is too small on phonesTiny text is tiring to read on a phone, so people skim or leave.Look and feelToo many different fonts on your pageMixing more than two or three fonts makes a page look unplanned, so your business may seem less professional.
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