[fedora-websites] #246: fedora.css sets a universal scaling factor of 76%, which is much too small

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#246: fedora.css sets a universal scaling factor of 76%, which is much too small
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 Reporter:  adamwill       |       Owner:  webmaster
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major          |   Milestone:
Component:  General        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  css font size  |  Blocked By:
 Blocking:                 |
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Comment (by adamwill):

 Couple of notes on the theory here: AIUI (and I'm a CSS expert with three
 days of cloud-based training!), the 76% functions as a universal
 *fallback*, not a universal *override*.

 It's not like sites that set their own text sizes have to take that 76%
 into account and make all their settings bigger than they would otherwise
 be because they'll be multiplied by 0.76 later, that's not how it works.
 The '76%' size is only applied to text which *isn't styled in any other
 way* by a later and/or more specific stylesheet. So basically, any site
 which actually decides to do its own font sizing has completely thrown
 that 76% away.

 Therefore, poking that value is only going to change text for which no
 other size is explicitly set. The only sites that might be 'negatively
 affected' by the change are ones whose design is strongly tied to
 tinyfonts, but which don't explicitly set a small font size themselves.

 Generally speaking I'd expect only text for which no-one really deeply
 cares about the size to be sized by that 76% directive.

 So I think just changing that to 82% wouldn't actually be a terribly
 disruptive change; try it out, anyhow, and see what you see.

 As discussed on IRC an even more conservative approach is just to find
 sites that specify Cantarell (if there are any other than fp.o itself) and
 explicitly set a larger size for those, since Cantarell renders pretty
 small.

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