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For a few years now, the size of fonts on my web site has been what it is as you read this, and that size is just that much larger than most other personal sites or weblogs. Just that much larger than most WordPress templates, as one shining example. And a whole lot larger than the trend to mini fonts that was taking over the Internet when I started this site. (Remember the mini fonts? You don’t see those much these days.)

Now, I believe there is a place for small fonts — in captions, in secondary data like dates and tags, etc. But I believe in making main articles easy to read!

Here are a few things I’ve noticed lately along the lines of type size.

1. Google has upped the size of the font you type into the search box. It’s been a week or two, now. Nice.
2. Newsweek has a font-size selector next to its articles that slides! Love it. See this article as an example.
3. If you disagree and think smallest is bestest, use this crazy font with an x-height of 3 pixels. (Typophile is awesome.)

Goodnight!