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Why the html/body font-size is 14px instead of 16px?

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In most of the modern websites(at least top most) the font-size is ~16px but why fomantic is still on 14px? Even most of the browsers use 16px as their default. Any specific reason for sticking onto 14px?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:12 (6 by maintainers)

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exoegocommented, Dec 10, 2019

I understand that introducing breaking change in minor versions are reasonable for some cases, e.g. security issue, bug, or something like that. But why we introduce breaking change in font in v2.9 despite users can configure font size ? I think most users expects minor versions as drop-in replacement, and will get surprised if font size increased and their design get broken.

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hammy2899commented, Feb 17, 2020
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