{"id":35,"date":"2007-02-28T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/weblog\/2007\/02\/28\/big-up-your-blogs-font-size\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:44:07","slug":"big-up-your-blogs-font-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/big-up-your-blogs-font-size\/","title":{"rendered":"big up your blog&#039;s font size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/\" title=\"Cote | Redmonk\">Cot\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;s blog<\/a> a few week&#8217;s ago that he was using a very big font size.\u00c2\u00a0 At first I thought it looked goofy, but after I while I thought to myself &#8220;damn if this isn&#8217;t easy to read!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I played follow-the-leader and changed the default font size setting of <a href=\"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/weblog\/\" title=\"Bill Higgins | Weblog\">my WordPress blog<\/a> from the default 75% (normal letters approximately 10px high) to 120% (normal letters approximately 22px high).\u00c2\u00a0 Since then, I&#8217;ve gotten a number of compliments from friends and family who can now read the blog easier (and aren&#8217;t familiar with the browsers&#8217; font scaling controls).<\/p>\n<p>So unless you&#8217;ve got a really good reason to keep your font tiny, why not follow Cot\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;s lead and make your blog&#8217;s font real big?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed on Cot\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;s blog a few week&#8217;s ago that he was using a very big font size.\u00c2\u00a0 At first I thought it looked goofy, but after I while I thought to myself &#8220;damn if this isn&#8217;t easy to read!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I played follow-the-leader and changed the default font size setting of my WordPress blog from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}