Who at Yahoo decided that a 12px font size was readable? Maybe start by firing that person?
http://hn.explodie.org/writings/stop-using-small-font-size.h...
http://hn.explodie.org/writings/stop-using-small-font-size.h...
It's only in the last 2-3yrs that font-sizes have grown.
I'm sure that if the website was redesigned today, a larger font would be implemented.
Yeah, errrr....there is no "standard" on the web. Make your font sizes readable. It's really not hard.
12px was very readable for a very long time. FYI, screen resolutions weren't always as good as they are now.
In fact, if you go further back in time, many "webmasters" (what we called ourselves because you young'uns decided you were "engineers" of usability) even gasp used 11px. Oh the days of the CRT... good times... good times.
I'm not sure why you think I'm a "young'un" but, please get over yourself, "old timer."
So because 12px font was super readable on 640x480 CRT on Win95, we should continue to use that and never update our blogs?
Are you seriously trying to defend shitty readability in 2013? What a weirdo.
Nope.
> Are you seriously trying to defend shitty readability in 2013?
Nope, not as far as I can tell. Do read my original post.
In case you're too young to understand why I wrote... I was explaining a possible reason why the site has the font-size it currently has. I went on to say that I'm sure that were the site redesigned today, it would have a larger font... JUST LIKE ALL THE WEBSITES YOU LIKE THAT HAVE 16px FONTS... YES, THEY PROBABLY HAD 12 or 13px FONTS IN THEIR PREVIOUS ITERATIONS.