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Discussion on: Back to Basic: Should we use Rem, Em or Pixel?

 
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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.

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Dillon Headley

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.