Happy days to web designers and developers across the world.  There have been quite a bit of posts lately about dropping em values as font-sizes and switching back to pixel sizes.  This will definitely save headaches for lots of us.  Cameron Moll’s article explains some of the reasoning behind this but it makes all the sense in the world to us.

I also heard on a recent Boag World podcast that this would probably be adopted for the host’s company as well in their future developments.

Yes, em values as font sizes will scale the text larger when you set the browser’s text size larger but many modern browsers have replaced the shortcuts for this with page zooming instead.  Yes you run the risk of zooming in so much there is horizontal scrolling but I think if your text size is large enough overall you can eliminate this problem.

No need to go into further detail but you can read the full article and listen to the podcast using the links above in the page copy.

What are you other designers/developers going to do out there?  Stop using em values and revert back to pixel font sizes?  Or stay with the headaches of em valued font sizes?

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