So that I'm still able to read it on my 640x480 CRT screen. Backwards compatibility is serious business at Google.
Joking aside, it's a 62.5% x 1.2em font size which is rendered as 12px (at least with my chromium/ff defaults). Probably too small for most readers nowadays (some would certainly agree cf. http://informationarchitects.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-t...).
Joking aside, it's a 62.5% x 1.2em font size which is rendered as 12px (at least with my chromium/ff defaults). Probably too small for most readers nowadays (some would certainly agree cf. http://informationarchitects.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-t...).