On Fri, May 17, 2013, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/17/typographic-design-patterns-pract...
Jared Zimmerman jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org replied:
Very interesting, it would be great to run a diff on the noms from this and wikipedia
Wiki body text is 0.8em in the vector skin, at default zoom I think default is 16px so this becomes 12.8 px in Firefox and 13px in Chromium. Agora input fields are the same size, Agora labels are 11.5 (Firefox), 13px / 12 px (Chromium). This is below the 14px and 16px peaks in the chart in the case study.
Our line height is 150% (1.5em of 12.8 thus 19.2px), which is close to their norm.
BTW, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography#Line_s... to say: "The standard for content line spacing (or line height) is 120% of the type size itself. For example, the line height for 10pt content would be sized at 12pt."
I've struck it out and added a section for Font size