font-size Limbo

You may recall that Alvaro suggests bumping up font-size to 1.25rem from the default person agent dimension of 16px. Sebastian Laube pokes at that:

I wouldn’t undertake Alvaro’s suggestion with out additional ado, as I might waste a lot house on a smartphone, for instance, and plenty of customers would in all probability be irritated by the massive font.

I set a font dimension of 1.2rem from a sure viewport dimension. However this additionally must be accomplished fastidiously, as a result of then gray areas come up wherein media queries out of the blue fall again into one other space…

I personally agree with Alvaro that the default 16px dimension is just too small. That’s simply how I really feel as somebody who’s uncomfortably near sporting the bottoms of precise Coke bottles to see something clearly on a display.

On the flip aspect, I professionally agree with Sebastian, not that many customers would in all probability be irritated by the massive font, however to brazenly query an strategy reasonably than adopting another person’s strategy wholesale based mostly on a single weblog submit. It could very nicely be {that a} font-size bump is the proper strategy. All the pieces is relative, in spite of everything, and we must be listening to the individuals who use the factor we’re making for selections like this.

The a lot larger query is the one Sebastian poses proper on the finish there:

Ought to browsers maybe use a bigger font dimension on massive screens from the outset if the person doesn’t specify in any other case? Or do we want an info marketing campaign to make them conscious that they need to test their system settings or set a distinct default font dimension within the browser?

Improbable, proper?! I’m truthfully not sure the place I’d draw the viewport breakpoint for 16px being both too massive or small and the place to start out making changes. Is 16px the proper default at any viewport dimension? Or maybe person brokers ought to contemplate a fluid sort implementation that defines a default font scale and vary of sizes as an alternative? It’s nice meals for thought.

font-size Limbo initially revealed on CSS-Methods, which is a part of the DigitalOcean household. It is best to get the publication.