I consider the reasonable range of body text font-sizes to be 16–20px, but I recommend 16–18px. (On small screens, you should exclusively use 16px; the larger values are for larger screens where it can be warranted and I would almost always recommend it.) This is what just about everything is calibrated against, so you cause trouble by going much out of this range.
HN uses 12px. At 25% below the range, this is significantly undersized, and 120% scaling is about the minimum I can tolerate (though I don’t find myself going up to 133% for some reason, which I might have thought I would do, but I decided I didn’t like it).
The site in question uses 25.3px. At 26.5% above my proposed range (and 40% above my recommendation), this is significantly oversized.
If your eyes are straining at 70%, which reduces it to 17.71px, something’s wrong, probably in your setup—because that’s generally still at least 10% larger than all the rest of the text in your OS! (Linux/Sway: Firefox UI seems to be largely 14.667px with a little 15.4px, and this 14.667px seems visually to match other apps.)
No, creata is correct. This site’s text is very unreasonably and troublesomely large, and even shrinking it to 80% leaves it very mildly oversized.
(The lead paragraph is 32.2px, which does reach the point I would happily describe as comically large. The quote a couple later is 21.85px.)
HN uses 12px. At 25% below the range, this is significantly undersized, and 120% scaling is about the minimum I can tolerate (though I don’t find myself going up to 133% for some reason, which I might have thought I would do, but I decided I didn’t like it).
The site in question uses 25.3px. At 26.5% above my proposed range (and 40% above my recommendation), this is significantly oversized.
If your eyes are straining at 70%, which reduces it to 17.71px, something’s wrong, probably in your setup—because that’s generally still at least 10% larger than all the rest of the text in your OS! (Linux/Sway: Firefox UI seems to be largely 14.667px with a little 15.4px, and this 14.667px seems visually to match other apps.)
No, creata is correct. This site’s text is very unreasonably and troublesomely large, and even shrinking it to 80% leaves it very mildly oversized.
(The lead paragraph is 32.2px, which does reach the point I would happily describe as comically large. The quote a couple later is 21.85px.)