The text isn’t large – it’s using the default font size you have configured in your browser. The text on the original site is small – looks like pg’s sense of

The text isn’t large – it’s using the default font size you have configured in your browser. The text on the original site is small – looks like pg’s sense of design is firmly rooted in the late 90s, when people were designing primarily with 640×480–800×600 in mind and there was an awful fad of setting body copy to 11–13px. That’s too small for most people in typical reading conditions, but if that’s the size you are used to looking at all day, everything normal size looks “too big”, even if it’s actually just normal size.