Yes. @media queries based on the number of pixels on your screen work well. > On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks Henrik. > > On my laptop (Macbook Pro 15" with Retina screen), the 9pt and 10 pt look best. The 12 looks very large. > > On the other hand, on my phone (Samsung S II, not the most current :-)) the 9pt is unreadable. The 12 point actually looks best. > > I hope that there is some better way to express the sizing so that it works well across platforms. > > Yours, > Joel > > On 4/22/15 1:09 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: >> Hi Joel, >> >> On 2015-04-22 18:06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: >>> Hi Joel, >>> >>>> On 22 Apr 2015, at 17:49, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have to agree that 12pt produces too large a default. Is there an easy way for me as a user to experiment with what 10pt would look like, so I can comment on that? And is there an easy way for me to try that size on my phone, to see if it seems equally readable there? >>> >>> I'll set up a bunch of sample pages for you to try out. >> >> Here are links to pages set up with 9pt, 10pt, 11pt and 12pt: >> >> https://tools.ietf.org/pt/ >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Henrik >> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Henrik >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Joel >>>> >>>>> On 4/22/15 11:42 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> ??? You obviously believe that a font size of '1em' or 'medium' is >>>>>> semantically >>>>>> more correct than '12pt'. Can you back that up? The CSS 2.1 >>>>>> specification >>>>>> is very clear about the semantic meaning of point sizes, see Section >>>>>> 4.3.2 of >>>>>> the CSS 2.1 specifcaiton. >>>>>> >>>>>>> If you don't want to use "1em", please consider "medium", which tells >>>>>>> the browser to use the default size it believes is best based on >>>>>>> defaults and configuration by the user. >>>>>> >>>>>> That's funny. 'medium' is the default setting, which is what you get >>>>>> with >>>>>> 1em. Hilarious :-D >>>>> >>>>> Today I thought my browser on my laptop had a bug in it, because it >>>>> displayed the draft using insanely big letters and I had to hit ctrl "-" >>>>> to bring the size down to something reasonable. Then I noticed this >>>>> thread :P >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>> >>> >> > -- Joe Hildebrand