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		mitchdoogle on Feb 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visual design rules you can safely follow Wouldn't smaller fonts render bigger on old monitors? Higher resolution means you have to use a bigger font. And now you run into a 15 year old website now and then and text looks tiny

vitaflo on Feb 7, 2023 [–]

This is correct. I had a 15" CRT that was 800x600 in the late 90's that I did designs on, so I used a 10px font. Now I have a 15" laptop screen that is 1920x1080 so of course I'm not going to use 10px fonts anymore.

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