Tekstikokoa

Tekstikokoa is a term used in typography and user interface design to describe a focus on the relative size of text, especially body copy, in both digital and printed materials. The term is informal and not tied to a single official standard, but it is used to discuss how text size affects readability, scanning, and information density in layouts.

Overview and scope

Tekstikokoa concerns how base font size, line length, line height, and character proportions interact to influence legibility and cognitive load. It often aligns with broader practices in responsive typography and modular scale, where text scales coherently across devices while maintaining a comfortable reading rhythm. The concept is commonly applied to dashboards, articles, mobile interfaces, and any context where dense information is presented.

Principles and guidelines

Important considerations include selecting a suitable base size for body text, establishing a harmonious typographic scale, managing line length to avoid fatigue, and preserving adequate contrast. Accessibility plays a central role: typography should remain legible when users adjust text size, and designs should support WCAG-recommended practices for readability. In practice, tekstikokoa encourages flexibility through responsive tokens or CSS variables so text scales gracefully with viewport changes without sacrificing clarity.

Variants and implementation

While not codified as a formal standard, tekstikokoa can be implemented via design systems that define typography tokens, fluid type scales, and accessibility checks. Designers may experiment with different base sizes and scales to balance information density with comfort, particularly in interfaces that present large amounts of data or long-form content.

See also

Typography, Readability, Accessibility, Responsive design, Readability in design.