waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Seriously, what?

March 17th, 2005

From Poynter Online – Eight Things You Can Do Now To Improve On-Screen Readability:

3. Define type size by pixel, not by point size. Each monitor resolution will be different, so the type that you specify as “10 point” might measure as 14 points on one system and something different on another.

Uh, what? That’s insane. Here’s some sanity.

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