3 ms·

Why?

• weare138 4y ago
  When you use fixed font sizes like that browsers can't resize them based on the screen size/viewport. 12px fonts are really small and hard to read on high resolution screens.
  • echeese 4y ago
    That's false, px refers to CSS pixel, which is not tied to physical screen pixels.
    • kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
      It still renders excessively small on my lo-dpi screen. Absolute pixel sizing text is silly even if it is a phony virtualized unit.
  • dkonofalski 4y ago
    They can still zoom them in, though. It's not like specifying a font size is an absolute value.
• tomjakubowski 4y ago
  My guess is that it's 1 pixel short of a typical 1.5x line height.
  • dkonofalski 4y ago
    Standard line heights are usually 1.4.