User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-24416108-20150518203353/@comment-89.241.67.210-20150518205100

It doesn't make sense though. As screens get larger in resolution, their physical size gets larget too. So before, the font was roughly the same size on my 17 inch laptop as my 15 laptop. Now, the font is larger on the 17 inch resulting in lost space.