My approach for a while has been:
:root { font-size: 62.5% }
body { font-size: 1.6rem }
That way the user can still change the browser’s font size if needed, Rems are easy to reason on (1rem = 10px) AND all you still have the 16px default size.
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There is no standard lol the only baseline is that generally the browser starts at a 16px size. Each library or reset or normalize you use is just normal css someone wrote. They had to make a decision with this root font size but from what I’ve seen most just leave it at the default.
I'm a full-stack Software Engineer and Architect. I specialise in front-end niceness, but my daily tasks are mostly about making server less work well and scale within our suit of micro services!
Who said anything about 'normalize' or'resets'? Not sure it was ever related to a CSS reset. 16px is an awkward unit to reason about. When I said 'standardised', perhaps 'convention' would have been more reasonable -- an approach adopted by many many developers.
Just do a search for css 62.5% and you'll find tons of articles about the technique, dating as far back as 10 years ago. , just another thing in a front-end devs toolbox to speed up development and forget about it.
I bring up css libs and resets because a lot of devs (particularly newer devs) use them and likely assume that whoever made it "is doing it right". I wanted to point out that this assumption isn't true in this case (and many others).
I agree its a convention but not one set up default anywhere.
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My approach for a while has been:
:root { font-size: 62.5% }
body { font-size: 1.6rem }
That way the user can still change the browser’s font size if needed, Rems are easy to reason on (1rem = 10px) AND all you still have the 16px default size.
Right. I thought this was standardised a while ago in this fashion
There is no standard lol the only baseline is that generally the browser starts at a 16px size. Each library or reset or normalize you use is just normal css someone wrote. They had to make a decision with this root font size but from what I’ve seen most just leave it at the default.
Who said anything about 'normalize' or'resets'? Not sure it was ever related to a CSS reset. 16px is an awkward unit to reason about. When I said 'standardised', perhaps 'convention' would have been more reasonable -- an approach adopted by many many developers.
Just do a search for
css 62.5%and you'll find tons of articles about the technique, dating as far back as 10 years ago. , just another thing in a front-end devs toolbox to speed up development and forget about it.I bring up css libs and resets because a lot of devs (particularly newer devs) use them and likely assume that whoever made it "is doing it right". I wanted to point out that this assumption isn't true in this case (and many others).
I agree its a convention but not one set up default anywhere.