[juloo]

Hacker News is not readable for me. Text is too small, the button for folding the comment tree is impossible to hit on mobile. I'm reading this website with 150% zoom and the browser window that is 50% the width of my screen.

Nevermind 16 or 12, fixed size is to be avoided, from 2010: https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

[account42]

> Hacker News is not readable for me. Text is too small, the button for folding the comment tree is impossible to hit on mobile. I'm reading this website with 150% zoom and the browser window that is 50% the width of my screen.

What is your monitor size, resolution and view distance and do you use any display scaling?

> Nevermind 16 or 12, fixed size is to be avoided, from 2010: https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

I agree that using user preferences is a good idea - however then the body text should be always 100% of the user set font size, never > 100%.

The second best option is to have all sites use a consistent fixed size, and that will necessarily have to be the same as the default browser font size and the common font size of older websites - it can't change just because the average pixel has gotten smaller. Then you can get your desired font size setting a default zoom option.

[MauroAccorinti]

Hey guys, thanks for the perspective! (I'm the guy who wrote the article)

You're right, saying "16px minimum for all sites" was wrong. I have no idea where I heard the phrase "16px is minimum for accessibility", but I guess that just stuck in my head, and since I even found similar sayings in other sources, I took it to be true.

So umm, fake news I guess?

I revised the article to clarify that and left links that go into more detail on font size.

Thanks again. I appreciate everyone voicing their opinions.