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[2021] Font size is useless; let’s fix it
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Wow, all the ideas of the author are bad.
Font size in pixels are a bad idea, because people have different screen resolutions. For some your text might be legible and for some it will be a text for ants. You don't want that. Also a piece of paper doesn't have pixels, so you'll get different results for printed pages. You don't want that as well.
And the line height thing? No. Just no. Only because I have one larger letter anywhere in my text I don't want to screw up the line spacing for the whole paragraph/text.
Text size in px is objectively a bad idea.