72 pr 96 dpi web design?
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- orkman
Heard an interesting comment tonight. A designer I was talking to said they design at 96dpi mostly for font size reasons. Did I miss something here? I know a lot of monitors can display at 72 or 96, but seems like 72 is the default standard.
Is this right?
- ********0
it depends on wether or not you're using an intel or amd. what details do you have?
- ********0
thats just wrong cause the screen resolution is always 72.
example, if you designed it at 300 dpi, it will show enlarged image
monitors are not capable of showing anything above 72.
- ********0
btw.. 96dpi is only on Windows PC
" DPI refers to the number of dots (pixels) per inch on a screen. If you have a Macintosh computer (or MacOS compatible), you have a 72 dpi screen. If you have a Windows PC, you have a 96 dpi screen. DPI is also known as "resolution," although resolution is really a combination of dpi & the above."
- skelly0
dpi is a misleading term since no two monitors will display exactly 72 dots every inch, it's more of a standard which everyone goes by. you could have images of varying dpi's all display the same size.
it's just pointless because higher dpi will never mean a better quality image on the web, just a bigger one.
- orkman0
K well I know on my PC at work there is a 72 or 96 setting in my advanced display panel, but I always do 72. I just always work at 72, I am not trying to do anything specifically, just I had never heard that someone builds pages at 96dpi. Seems so odd and wondered if others here do it and why?
- ********0
don't listen to them. these assholes can't even plug in their own monitors
- acescence0
the only time dpi matters on screen is when you insert text into an image. text is measured in points, 1 point = roughly 1/72 of an inch. this is where 72 dpi standard comes from.
if you insert 12 point text into a 96 dpi image, and display it on a 72 dpi screen next to 12 point text rendered in html, the text in the image will appear smaller. follow me?
- orkman0
Yes Acescense exactly what I think they are getting at.
Hmmm, so I take it everyone still builds at 72, and text in images are a special case?
- slappy0
I always set my font sizes in pixels in my css so its not really an issue...
- ribit0
72dpi is just an arbitrary standard that is given way too much press.
The 23" Cinema Display displays at 98 dpi, the 30" at 101dpi.
My Palm displays at something like 120dpi
If I project your website on the wall it might be 10dpi
72dpi is just a standard to allow people coming from the print world to have a rough guide to the screen medium...it doesnt really mean anything when you can never know the size of the screen being used...
- ********0
Pfft. Those "Print World" people are just troublemakers. Just the other day one of them sent me a jpg flyer for his band at 600dpi and wondered why I send it back to him to clog his account.
- ribit0
but why did you send it back exactly? dpi settings applied to a digital image are just metadata and (in isolation) tell you nothing about the file data size or image dimensions.
- ********0
but why did you send it back exactly? dpi settings applied to a digital image are just metadata and (in isolation) tell you nothing about the file data size or image dimensions.
ribit
(Apr 24 06, 01:14)Because it was about 11mb fool! It could've been 34kb.
- ribit0
well sure thats because the image dimensions in pixels were huge right? thats the only bit that counts.
the fact they used a dpi setting of 600dpi in combination with a specified print size is why they mistakenly made an image with excessive dimensions in pixels.
It wasnt the dpi setting in isolation that makes the image huge, its the huge dimension in pixels. (the dpi and print size are only applied metadata, which you could remove without altering the bitmap image at all)
- ********0
but you agree that he should've known better!
- ribit0
absolutely... (I'm just being stupidly pedantic about dpi being meaningless in isolation from other image meta data such as specified print size, or real image attributes such as the bitmap dimensions).
see, I do go on don't I?
- boxcar0
DPI does not change the actual size of the file. It is the dimension of the image that changes the file size.
A 400px by 400px image at 72dpi will have the same file size as a 400px by 400px image at 300dpi. Try it out.
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
oy vey... you bastards have managed to confuse the freckles off my ass...
... anyone got any good REFERENCE besides your individual brains? :)
confusing sons of bitches...
- acescence0
yes, my computer and logic are my references.
- soda0
absolutely... (I'm just being stupidly pedantic about dpi being meaningless in isolation from other image meta data such as specified print size, or real image attributes such as the bitmap dimensions).
see, I do go on don't I?
ribitribit you made me dizzy.
I haven't tried so hard to understand a post on here since...
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