User:AHollender (WMF)/sandbox/font-size

Firstly we need to convert the measure used by the researchers (points) into the measure that browsers ultimately render (px). The conversion is: 1px = 72pt / 96. So the range studied in the research (10–26 points) is equivalent to 13.3–34px. Their conclusion, 18 points, is equal to 24px. So should we increase the font size to 24px? The research studied in-depth reading, however people often scan the page in order to find a certain piece of information (which is a different reading behavior, that arguably benefits from a smaller font size than in-depth reading does). Our conservative proposal, taking into account scanning, is to increase the font size to 16px to begin with (we would be increasing the maximum width of the article as well, from 960px to 1050px). As a next step we will plan to conduct our own research to further study font size on Wikipedia.