For Hacker News specifically: Verdana at 13px (12px for body text) was a fine choice at 72 dpi. HN didn't exist in the 1990s, but its design principles are fro

For Hacker News specifically: Verdana at 13px (12px for body text) was a fine choice at 72 dpi. HN didn't exist in the 1990s, but its design principles are from that era. The look itself is a nice throwback, but the type size follows a technical constraint that no longer makes sense (it only made sense when CSS was nonexistent or very limited).