/2008/design/: font is too small?

[tripu]

Everywhere the 2008 design is used (eg, on the home page), the size of the “standard” chunk of text (eg, a regular <p>) is 88.56% of the standard/base font size set by the UA + OS. For example, on my Chromium on Ubuntu Linux, and with my personal settings, paragraphs of text on w3.org have a size of 14.1696px (88.56% of 16px).

That is because CSS rules set body to font-size: .82em and then #w3c_container to font-size: 108%. The net result for text within #w3c_container is 88.56%.

This is arguably too small, assuming that OS's and UA's set pixel density to the right DPI of the display device, and that people set their standard font sizes to whatever they feel comfortable reading.

(With my particular setup and with my eyesight, that is definitely the case. In fact, I had set the zoom to 110% for the origin w3.org long ago — and now I understand why! Another colleague concurs; in fact, he was the one pointing out this issue.)

I'd like to see what pages look like if I remove both CSS rules, so that “normal” text on w3.org will have a size equal to whatever the device, the OS, the UA and the user consider “normal” (and not less).

WDYT?