Many home electronic brands have presented new television sets with built-in browsers and apps. Even though not many of these have enjoyed widespread adoption, the responsive web design movement talks about how you should start adapting your web sites for not only mobile, tablets and desktop but also for the television set.
What are the main differencies between a desktop web experience and a television experience? Are there any studies or guidelines that you could point to?
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Here are some other resources:
- Opera TV Styleguide
Interactive Television Design by BBC (this one is made for former IP-TV tech called MHP, but it goes into specific technical details of TV-Screens and how to design for it ie. typosize, screensize)
Several rules can improve legibility on screen:
- Body text should not generally be smaller than 24 point
- No text should ever be smaller than 18 point in any circumstances
- Light text on a dark background is slightly easier to read on screen
- Text on screen needs looser leading (greater line spacing) than in print
- When technically possible, tracking should be increased by up to 30%
- A full screen of text should contain a rough maximum of 90 words
- Text should be broken into small chunks that can be read almost instantly
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Technical constraints:
Possible resources:
Edit: Having read through all of them - it actually caught me - I feel most so called styleguides are a sort of break my website down to Tv, but I think it doesn't work this way. Because TVs are technically very different from computer screens, despite the fact that more and more TVs are based on computer screens aka LCD TVs, still most are old NTSC or PAL TVs. Personally, I think making website for TV will shift to the responsibility of Motion Design - this are the guys who have expertise in this area.
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