# We're increasing the default font size by 1px
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828 "2019-01-17T17:40:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/1 "2019-01-17T17:40:50Z")
Our old default was 14px, now it’s 15px. All text will look slightly larger.
**Why?**
There’s [some evidence](https://pielot.org/2016/01/optimal-font-size-for-web-pages/) that larger font sizes increase readability, and larger font sizes are generally becoming more common across the web (you can easily find some sites that are making body text as large as 20px!). So this is a minor bump in that direction.
**I hate it**
That’s ok. Visit [Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface) and select “Smaller” from the text size dropdown.
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Notice any issues with text, or text alignment that might be related to the change? Report them here.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/2 "2019-01-17T17:44:46Z")
Admin users search placeholder text is cut off:
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/3 "2019-01-17T17:54:42Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/4 "2019-01-17T17:58:36Z")
One thing not mentioned, but should have been: this is yet another normalization between mobile layout and desktop. Mobile has been at 15px default for a while now.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/5 "2019-01-17T20:00:43Z")
The avatar in the header is stretched to roughly 34x34px, but the image has a size of 32x32.
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/6 "2019-01-21T06:50:47Z")
It was never this much big size like this. Or, just I am noticing!
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828/7 "2019-01-21T07:00:44Z")
> [@We're increasing the default font size by 1px](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-increasing-the-default-font-size-by-1px/106828):
>
> Our old default was 14px, now it’s 15px. All text will look slightly larger. Why? There’s [some evidence](https://pielot.org/2016/01/optimal-font-size-for-web-pages/) that larger font sizes increase readability, and larger font sizes are generally becoming more common across the web (you can easily find some sites that are making body text as large as 20px!). So this is a minor bump in that direction. I hate it That’s ok. Visit [Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface) and select “Smaller” from the text size dropdown. Notice any issues…
There was a 1px bump from 14px to 15px. Admin impact has been noted and AFAIK is being looked at.