: Is it possible to render readable screen type at a size of 3px? I just created an icon in fireworks with a size 17*15 (which is small) and when i try to label the icon the minimum size

@Shakeerah625

You can have the text at whatever size you like so long as it has a sensible mouseover (with normal screens).

Haven't a clue why people are talking 'pts' here - points are dead tree and not pixels, points have no use to you here as a screen could be 72 or 96 or anything else dpi.

In the early days fonts were on 8x8 monospace fonts. If they could have used less pixels then they would have done. But they did not have dithering and 'cleartype' then, never mind proportional width fonts. With these innovations you can go smaller, but screens have gone up in resolution so legibility is tricky for most people with 8 pixel high fonts. With that in mind, do consider your customers and whether there is any point at all in 3 pixel high text.

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@RJPawlick971

Nope. What you are asking for is pretty much impossible. You can't render letterforms with only 3 vertical pixels. There have been attempts at making incredibly small screen type, though. For instance:
www.typophile.com/node/61920
That face has a 3px x-height. So pretty small. Is it readable? Not really. But a fun experiment.

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@Fox8063795

Do you want it small or do you want it readable? Anything smaller than 8 pt won't really be easily readable by anyone using standard (1024x768) screen resolution.

Remember that a logo is supposed to provide a graphic representation and good practice encourages redundancy (i.e. a text label below the icon). So for instance this button:


could mean many things to many people. It could mean:

or

This is 10 point text; probably readable by the majority of folks. 3 point text will look like this:
and won't really be useful. You are probably much better off having a clean graphic and either labeling it below or providing something somewhere else that explains the (nice and clean) graphics. think the toolbar in Photoshop - most folks who are used to the toolbars know that the little brush is the brush tool, the little pencil is the pencil tool, etc. If you hover over the tool you get a pop-up that actually tells you the proper name, but it's normally not there. This keeps the interface as clean and organized as possible.

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