I'm now starting to understand why what I consider to be obscenely large text has been proliferating through the web in recent years. My assumption has been th

I'm now starting to understand why what I consider to be obscenely large text has been proliferating through the web in recent years. My assumption has been that websites should use 12pt sans-serif fonts for standard content. Maybe my assumptions need to be revised. While it's annoying to me to see websites with text at 16pt, maybe that's what people want these days and I'll just have to suck it up and zoom out.