User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-1618941-20150519232313

I've read through a number of the preceding comments, and even though I don't personally have a problem with the update I can see where some of the negativity is coming from. I browse windowed on a 1920 x 1080 monitor, so visually there is almost no change for me between the old render and the new. When expanding my browser window to full screen however, I can see the difference from the 14pt font (windowed) to the 16pt font (full screen).

I don't think the change to 16pt is optimal, because even though it serves to upscale the view roughly relative to the smaller screen area, it also adds a jarring transition when viewing an external website and switching to a Wikia article. I believe the better practice would be to leave viewers with their browser defaults defining font sizes for the body text. That way the reader views articles with a font size that is consistent with the size they view most non-Wikia content on Internet.