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by gone35 4421 days ago
Nice, thank you for the reference to the typography tool you used [1]; I didn't know about Le Corbusier's proportions.

The discussion in [1] on "vertical tempo" is interesting because I think that is precisely the problem with your site. Your body font size is large but within currently fashionable standards [2] at around 10 words or 60 characters per line; but the headings and subheadings are so huge they are breaking the vertical flow of the page.

On my iPad, for instance, it currently takes me an unreasonably long 27 (!) full screens to scroll down to the end of the article, not counting the header (another full screen) nor the comments section. And often the subheading alone occupies the entire screen. With such huge disparity between body and headings size, it makes little difference whether both sizes come from the same proportional scale or not: the sheer size difference is perceived as out of proportion nonetheless.

[1] http://lamb.cc/typograph/

[2] http://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html