[Legion]

I agree with you. Yet, I am passing this on to my company's designers, if for no other reason than to convince them to stop filling 600px of space with little 12px text.

The failure to validate the ratio as "optimal" is a very valid criticism, but at the very least, what they're claiming as "optimal" is pretty darn good IMO.

[stderek]

For the past year, I've told people that size 14, and most cases size 16, is the new size 12.

Yet, some designers, especially designers outside the design space (designers you find in places like insurance companies) still crush size 12 fonts into large spaces.

Drives me crazy. Not only is it hard to read, it's essentially invisible on monitors with high resolutions.