User blog comment:Ohmyn0/Making your wiki HTML5 compliant/@comment-1997905-20120705203952/@comment-957747-20120705214034

FONT is much more bulky than styles, IMO. Using the font STYLE allows you to combine ALL font tags into one.

For instance,

blah

instead of

blah

Yes, the, in this case, is shorter in code (uses wiki-markup instead for bold/italic) but it's much easier to read what the style does above rather than trying to read through the font. Not only that, but most people do not combine the font tags like I did and instead do this:

 blah

One last thing. Using style allows you to perfectly choose the size of the font where as uses predefined values.

Test

There is no way to do that with. uses size=x which simulates H2, H3, H4 values instead.