Would anyone prefer the base font-size of Framework to be 13px/0.8125em instead of 12px/0.75em? Most sites I see today use this larger size as the default body font-size. I think this may be an appropriate adjustment for the higher resolution monitors we see today, and it generally looks better for paragraph styles, input fields, and most UI elements. You can of course continue to use smaller sizes, but I think having 13px as the default may be better? I know I've been overriding the CSS to make things 13px on many sites for a while now.

Thoughts anyone?

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petarb’s picture

petarb commented

Hi Andre
I quite like a larger type size these days. In fact changing the base size is one of the first things I do, so I'm sold. I think it's a simple step forward.

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andregriffin commented

The base font size in the upcoming release of Framework will indeed be 81.25%/13px. All fonts and margins/padding are still sized in ems.

13px is a common size these days.

I think it's better than having a base font of 62.5%/10px just to make the em calculation easy, because no one *really* wants a base font of 10px, they just want to make the calculations easy. This just ends up requiring even more things to be overridden.

75%/12px is what the last release of Framework was, and it was fine, but 13px looks better in my opinion, and is no more difficult to calculate. (I've still included a handy calculation chart at the top of the stylesheet.)

Leaving the font size at 100%/16px would be the purest approach requiring the lease CSS to override, but I think smaller base font sizes are far more popular.

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andregriffin commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Committed to 7.x-3.5

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kmajzlik commented

I was always using Framework, superb theme. But this change is holly XXXX. I think there should be some option to change or a new branch 4,x for this important thing. It made my subthemes looking seriously bad after upgrade to 3.5

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petarb commented

You should be setting the base font size in your subtheme. The issue is easily solved.