I have been arguing in the past about the oversized fonts, especially the headers. Well I found out something:

I am probably one of the few people that sees the English Wikipedia in such a large font size. I use MSIE, default settings (medium text, which suits me fine on most sites), but I use font Arial Unicode MS , this is a huge (50 Mb) unicode font that shows most foreign languages well. Microsoft only supplies it with its Office Suite. I installed it specifically to be able to render other Wp's at their best. Now it turns out that this font uses a larger point size for medium text (about 15% larger than Arial). So this explains why I was bothered more than others.

People on unicode Wikipedias are more likely to have deviated from MSIE default fonts. I think this is yet another argument why it would be nice to have user defined skins (without CVS or sysop intervention), people could pick their favourite from a list of uploaded skins, e.g. sorted by popularity.

Erik Zachte