User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-126761-20150520121535/@comment-26304798-20150520124430

Dude, you're completely missing the point. Mobile users on any average wiki were already perfectly fine. I've read many wiki's on my phone and never had a problem. This change was completely redundant if it was supposed to help the mobile user. What you've gone and done is messed up readability for desktop users. I don't know who came up with the notion that a bigger screen needs a bigger font, but that person needs to be fired from anything remotely related with designing things. If the response to this blog shows you anything, at the very least it should tell you that people don't WANT bigger fonts. It's annoying to read a webpage with an unnaturally large font. Especially in combination with a now narrower page body.

I know the kind of UX you're aiming for, in that there's a certain number of words per line that is most comfortable to read. I use it for my own websites as well, however trying to artificially obtain that magic number by increasing the font size is just bad. It's no better than a student increasing their font size to meet the minimum page requirement for a school essay. It's cheap and it's horrible practice. Fact is that no website should ever use a font size bigger than 14px for it's main body. 15px in some very rare cases, but 16px is just way too big no matter how much screen real estate you have. There's also the issue of large fonts working in case of short news articles and blog posts, but for long wiki articles it only hinders readability, it doesn't improve it. Wiki =/= News/Blog post, ok?

So here's a compromise, set the body and header font sizes back to what they were but feel free to increase the line height a bit, admitedly that was one of the few changes I could agree on. Keep your other changes like page body size and stuff like that, just give us back our font size. At the very least make it optional for the user or the wiki owner. If you want to decrease the amount of words per line you're going to have to find a different solution because this one is not working.