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>12px serif body text in 2022 Hacker News, and in fact this comment are 12px. Something's up with this site that's making it extra tiny. Update: Proof - https

• Arkanosis 5y ago
  It's sans-serif, hence the difference. What's extremely interesting is that on my laptop, HN is 12px when Firefox is full screen, but 13.33px when Firefox only uses the left or right half of my screen.
  • unfocussed_mike 5y ago
    > What's extremely interesting is that on my laptop, HN is 12px when Firefox is full screen, but 13.33px when Firefox only uses the left or right half of my screen. Yeah -- this is a common strategy for mobile rendering which on the face of it seems quite counterintuitive, but actually isn't.
    • Arkanosis 5y ago
      That seems so obvious, now that you said it. Thanks for sharing :)
• unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  Good spot. Though this comment is not 12px Serif, it is 12px sans-serif (and Verdana at that). Which makes a really significant difference with small fonts. It's also not body text on a blog article; this size of text is really too small for long-form reading (which admittedly includes all of my bloviating HN comments, natch)