Does 62.5% text look good on your resolution?

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Does 62.5% text look good on your resolution?

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What font-size do you use in for your websites? I normally use 70% (for content) which looks good on a resolution of 1024 × 768 and 1366 × 768; i've also read about the 62.5% font-size but on my displays that looks a bit small and could have visitors either leaving or squinting at the text trying to read it. Does 62.5% look good on your resolution?
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Re: Does 62.5% text look good on your resolution?

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I thought that the 62.5% trick was to change the default 16px font size to be 10px. Then your em and px sizes are aligned e.g., 1.5em is the same as 15px.
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Re: Does 62.5% text look good on your resolution?

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I guess that's what is supposed to do but it makes the text rather small; I just had a look at the original article and found this line:
clagnut.com wrote:10px text is too small for the real world.
Looks like you have to apply other font-size styling together with the 62.5% setting (that's how i understand it)
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Re: Does 62.5% text look good on your resolution?

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Yeah ... I think that is the idea. Not sure it is a good idea, but that is the idea.
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