Why Use CSS Relative Font Sizing?

Using CSS relative font sizing is a good practice. The websites that are using the relative font sizes are more easy to read and more accessible. In this type of font sizing one size is defined as the standard font size. Other font sizes are defined as the percentage of this standard font size. There are very distinct advantages of using relative font sizing both for the visitor and web designer.

In this method you don’t need to specify the font size for each class. Instead, you only need to focus on the size relationship between the standard font and any other relative fonts. You only need to specify the percentage rather than exact size.

So by changing the standard font size, all the fonts on the webpage will be changed accordingly and automatically. You don’t need to change every class in this method. This makes the life of web designer easier.

The websites that are made by using the relative font sizing are more readable. This is true when the person that is using the site can actually change the size of text. In some browsers like internet explorer the option of text size selection in a 2nd level menu is not available which makes the text resizing too complicated and problem for some users.

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