The Design Details Podcast

It's fine. Whether or not you like it is a matter of preference[1], but design-wise it works well. If you couldn't change the size in your browser then it'd be a problem, but you can, and the page still flows well even if you crank the type size up to 2 or 3 times the size.

[1] Design being how it works, not what it looks like. Your comment is really about aesthetics rather than design per se.

16px seems to be somewhat of an industry average [0]. Depends on the communication needs of the item. Personally I find smaller text and longer line lengths set the tone for how I should be consuming the article. Smaller and longer, more thoughtful reading. Big and short, bit sized scanning of text.

[0] http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-co...

Thanks for the feedback! This is something I've been constantly working on, and this comment is totally fair :) Also, the contrast mention below has come up a time or two before so it sounds like something I should fix up.

Aesthetics aside, I hope that the podcast sounds interesting! We're very excited to get things started.

Sounds like the podcast is for people like you who sweat the details!