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  1. Modify the base font-size to 62.5% so that 1.6rem = 16px.

That is not a given as it depends on browser settings and it generally doesn't mix well with other CSS that might not make the same assumption.

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I borrowed this from Milligram[0] because it seemed like a sane thing to do at the time. Would your recommendation be to not anything to the base font-size and adjust the REM sizes accordingly?

[0] https://github.com/milligram/milligram/blob/d895f179623b56f3...

Yes.

In relation to this since you're using rem for borders and progress bar height, it's all going to scale along with browser-defined font size. You might not want that, as people typically increase this setting to have just the text larger.

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