Excellent post. I hope you're cross-publishing this elsewhere because it's too good to stay on Dreamwidth and Dreamwidth alone. I actually thought I was reading a re-post from one of the bigger design websites and had to keep glancing up at your username to check that I wasn't.
This probably isn't too helpful to the overall point you're making, but my personal best answer to "12pt isn't 12pt everywhere you look", as someone who gets to decide what the font size is in certain situations, is to ignore the problem and just scale fonts by percentage. With the sheer preponderance of different resolutions out there now, that lets you basically pick your own font-size.
(I'm personally not a great fan of high DPI - just picked up an ancient laptop that has incredibly high screen res considering how small and old it is and what I don't like is how I have to keep it at very high res or everything looks so blurry. So I have sites of my own that work and read best at 1024 x 768 or 1440 x 900 displaying at, I don't know, I guess 1600 x 900 on this thing, and the text is so small that my eyes are straining - even with fonts scaled by percentage in the style sheets. Makes me wish there was a way to keep Firefox permanently zoomed in to compensate for it. I think a Retina display would actually kill me.)
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:20 am (UTC)This probably isn't too helpful to the overall point you're making, but my personal best answer to "12pt isn't 12pt everywhere you look", as someone who gets to decide what the font size is in certain situations, is to ignore the problem and just scale fonts by percentage. With the sheer preponderance of different resolutions out there now, that lets you basically pick your own font-size.
(I'm personally not a great fan of high DPI - just picked up an ancient laptop that has incredibly high screen res considering how small and old it is and what I don't like is how I have to keep it at very high res or everything looks so blurry. So I have sites of my own that work and read best at 1024 x 768 or 1440 x 900 displaying at, I don't know, I guess 1600 x 900 on this thing, and the text is so small that my eyes are straining - even with fonts scaled by percentage in the style sheets. Makes me wish there was a way to keep Firefox permanently zoomed in to compensate for it. I think a Retina display would actually kill me.)