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[2021] Font size is useless; let’s fix it (tonsky.me)

submitted 1 year ago by balder1993 to c/programming

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What happens when you set "font_size": 32 in your favorite editor? I would’ve told you anyway, but I’m glad that you asked.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Wow, all the ideas of the author are bad.

Font size in pixels are a bad idea, because people have different screen resolutions. For some your text might be legible and for some it will be a text for ants. You don't want that. Also a piece of paper doesn't have pixels, so you'll get different results for printed pages. You don't want that as well.

And the line height thing? No. Just no. Only because I have one larger letter anywhere in my text I don't want to screw up the line spacing for the whole paragraph/text.

Text size in px is objectively a bad idea.