There is no real way to determine what someone else will see when
they browse your pages, there are just too many variables. Pages
viewed with Navigator display a larger font size than Internet
Explorer for that matter.

The only text that is counted as spam is spam. Font size won't play
a role in it unless you're using it to hide something from a viewer.
It is completely legal to use any font size, however, there is a lot
of emphasis placed on headings. If headings are used correctly you
will benefit from a more structured index. If they're not used
correctly you'll get varied results at best.

The only thing that I've found to combat the font dilemma is to
either use a CSS font specification, such as ...

{style type="text/css"}
{!-- body { font-size: 12pt } --} (or whatever)
{/style}

... or specify the font size in the {basefont} tag. For instance ...

{basefont size="2"} (the HTML default is 3)

Other than that, you're at the whims of the viewer and their browser.

I hope this helps. ~*

NOTE: The {font} tag is being phased out of the HTML. In future
versions of the HTML you'll have to use either the {basefont} or
{style} tags. What a relief.

>Messing around with a site these days usually requires a lot of
>tables. Here's my problem: I get a table formated just perefectly
>with graphics and text. And then my boss, who runs in large fonts,
>cruises by and it breakse my beautifully mortissed graphics, and
>otherwise makes the page look like hell. The simple solution is
>to run a -1 font size so in case a "huge font looker" shows up it
>doesn't ruin your appearance, but some engines think that text is
>spam. Has anyone solved this?